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by optymizer 4444 days ago
Rule #5 of an Open Source license: "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons."

http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
1 comments
GhotiFish 4444 days ago
There's nothing that stops you from actually putting that clause in your license, just don't call it the GPL or MIT or whatever.

"My code is freely licensed open source, Based on GPL, with the addendum that Goldman Sachs can go stick their head in a pig"

As I understand it, there is nothing preventing this from happening.

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davidw 4444 days ago
Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source.
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ntakasaki 4444 days ago
>Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source.

It is surely open source. It's just not Open Source. An important difference because of the capitalization.

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davidw 4444 days ago
If you don't want to deliberately confuse people, you would say "the source code is available" or something like that, because most people take open source to mean this:

http://opensource.org/osd

So that even if they're speaking out loud, where one can't see capitalization, everyone knows what they mean.

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