[walrus01]

I don't think you can realistically expect anybody in the world, of any political ideology, to not use something that is GPL/BSD/LGPL/Apache/whatever licensed, if you've published the source code to the Internet.

I would be entirely unsurprised to find north korean telecoms/state government agencies using centos or debian. In fact if you google "north korea linux" you'll find that they already created their own weird custom GUI desktop distribution.

In the bigger picture, far more people use your code, whatever it is, to do useful and good things in random places in the world than people using it for purposes you find objectionable.

[m_b]

Thanks for lecturing me about licensing, as a contributor I already know that.

Isn’t it allowed to go further that sources access, what’s written on a piece of paper, and caring about ethics?

Does OSS contributors really needs to be so alienated?

[walrus01]

I honestly don't know what you expect, if you want to find some way to force autocratic regimes somewhere in the world to not use source code that's published to the open internet. If you discover some way to bend north korea to your will, please let us know.

[Rebelgecko]

JSLint made up its own license, which was essentially the MIT license with a sentence about "use this software for good; do not use this software for evil". FWIW that was enough for lots of people to make the determination that it wasn't really open source software since evil is often in the eye of the beholder and there was a gray area for "lawful neutral" type use.