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by icomefromreddit 3468 days ago
It would not be an free software.

> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all > (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, > including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby > mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

    Theo de Raadt cvs@openbsd.org mailing list, May 29, 2001
> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree.

    Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)
Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)