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by easton 1906 days ago
Their license text has always been my favorite (well, perhaps except for the original JSON license):

* The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:

* May you do good and not evil.

* May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.

* May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

edit: thanks for the correction about the jquery license.

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do you have the link for the original JSON license? It looks remains only "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
That's what I was talking about. Crawford said in a talk he had to make an amended licenses for corporations (namely, IBM), who had lawyers that needed to be able to get around the evil restriction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA

What is the original JQuery license?
Likely referring to the [JSON license](https://www.json.org/license.html) and not the jQuery license. The JSON license has this problematic (for many businesses) phrase: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.