[eksith]

Apparently the reason for this is the "Software shall be used for good" clause in the license, but I believe IBM obtained a special exemption that it may be used for evil as well.

Surely, the PHP folks can acquire a similar variation?

[LawnGnome]

Nope: Crockford has been asked and declined, per https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520#1352964601.

[plorkyeran]

Debian would not accept such an exemption unless it applied to everyone, and Crockford has refused to remove that clause in the past.