I am sure the terrorists will respect their little obscure clause. Yep, really sure.
How many armies does the Open Source Project have?
That would seem to allow anti-materiel defensive use (e.g. anti missile missile, blow up empty buildings)
Smart idiots.
There clause won't hold up under the Open Source GPL, on which they are basing their licensing. Their license is invalid and therefore anyone can use their software any way they see fit, now, HAHAHA!!
"Open source operating systems can steer warplanes and rockets. "
Uh yeah sure. I can imagine taking that one up the chain. Not a chance it would happen post Clinton.
Oh, I'm sure that China, Iran, and Cuba would never violate that license agreement.
Just once, it would be SO COOL to be a leftist dictator of a country, where one of these moonbats would come to me, decrying how I violated his license agreement, after agreeing not to... It would be so much fun to look into his eyes, and tell him, "Well, the reason I didn't follow your guidelines, is because I didn't want to. Now, I'm going to kill you. Bye bye!"
Mark
GPL licenses should prohibit use by terrorists.
I am so much looking forwarding to observing the (attempted) enforcement of stupidities such as this. The Left SO unhinged from reality it is unbelievable.
pretty ironic considering the internet was created...drum roll.....FOR THE MILITARY!!!!!
These gentlemen need a re-introduction to The First Law of Stupidity.
The military gave them the interntet (and a million other things), and these granola tech weanies now suggest something so laughable. Phat chance.
Actually, this could be a back-door way to hamstring the US Miliary. So much software is written using open source now, if this becomes widespread you could have fringe legal groups going to court, trying to halt fielding or deployment of weapons based on this clause. The software might not even be in there--just the ACCUSATION that is is in there could be enough for some fool judge to issue a devastating ruling.
Think it can't happen? I'm sure people said the same thing about gay marriage not too long ago.
The militaries these idiots need to worry about
(PRC, PRK, Iran, Russia & their stooges) will not
honor the license terms.
There are already too many public license variants.
If the free & open source community starts to further
balkanize and politicize their terms, they are going
to further screw up distros (which are already wringing
their hands over the inclusion of free binary-only code).
Maybe I need to release some code that excludes
Democrats.
What a bunch of jackholes. And I'm an OS user and advocate. The military should honor their silly license, develop a version from scratch better than theirs, and then release it under an open source license, beating their version to a pulp in the marketplace of ideas.
They should be more honest. What they really want to say is "no American military use", but that would be too blatant even for them.
The Free Software movement has many people who would be very comfortable in the Communist party...
There are severe security problems with using open source software in military systems.
There are some military applications where its use is allowed, but not many.
The Open Source movement has a death wish.