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by rgbrgb 870 days ago
Supports commercial use!

Interesting what's unsupported:

- In any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation or infringes upon the lawful rights and interests of any third party;

- For military use in any way;

- For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;

- To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;

- To generate or disseminate inappropriate content subject to applicable regulatory requirements;

- To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information without due authorization or for unreasonable use;

- To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;

- For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;

- To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories.

2 comments

The irony is that anyone who was going to do those things isn't going to care about a license anyway.
True, but at least the author wouldn't be liable.
You either wouldn't be liable anyway (not responsible for what people use it for) or will still be held liable (took no measures to prevent malicious use).
The MIT license covers liability more broadly and tightly in a single paragraph.
Who would qualify as a user that seeks to violate applicable laws and yet is somehow identified as an official part of some legally recognized military? Furthermore, how would anybody know?

As a dumb Army guy if I were doing military research I would just keep it on my private military internet that does not exist for non-military users.

Its virtue signaling. I know its over used, but seriously, who is intentionally harming minors BUT unwilling to break a ToS contract?
Processed food vendors come to mind, but I get your point.
Facebook lawyers
Meta/Instagram probably
The Devil?