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by mrsilencedogood 340 days ago
People who try to enforce this stuff via license fundamentally misunderstand the nature of copyright law.

Do you plan to sue people to enforce your license? Do you think people who are committing war crimes / crimes against humanity are going to not violate your license alongside all their other crimes?

The only thing this license accomplishes is ensuring no even semi-serious business will touch this with a 10' pole because it's a completely bespoke license with no prior understanding by their legal counsel. But you can already basically do that via the AGPL, except that some companies who are well-meaning may actually still use it.

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I didn't come up with the license. You can read about it here: https://firstdonoharm.dev/

I didn't want the code to be All Rights Reserved, so I chose the best license I could find that communicates my desires - I assume that's what most people do when choosing a license?

I'm OK if a "semi serious business" don't want to use my software.