Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract
Governments will always do evil. Not to everyone, all of the time - but they are by nature evil.<p>When I wrote the War FTP Daemon in 1996, as freeware, this became a problem to me. I did want to give away my work for free, but I did <i>not</i> want any government agency to abuse it. So I came up with a solution - a GPL license with an additional clause - that the government - <i>any</i> government - could not use it for any purpose.<p>Someone actually complained to the Free Software Foundation about this clause, and they concluded, at that time, that it was permissible.<p>In years to follow I received many emails from universities, schools, hospitals, research facilities - with requests to use the software. In most cases I granted them permission. But by doing it this way, I could sleep well at night - knowing that my software could not - legally - be used to separate children from parents, or for any other evil purpose by any governments around the globe.<p>----<p>War Software series
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