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by LevGoldstein 1688 days ago
>Is it really a terrible idea to restrict your software from being used to control weaponry?

Seems reasonable until you do something unrelated to offend the licensor and they decide to leverage a very loose definition of weaponry/munitions against you. For example, have a look at what is consider munitions for the purpose of export controls in the USA, and consider what additional items have been regulated as munitions in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Munitions_List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...