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by j_s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSLint
"The JSLint license is a derivative of the MIT License. The sole modification is the addition of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.""
The story (transcript from a conference):
"About once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a different lawyer, at a company – I don’t want to embarrass the company by saying their name, so I’ll just say their initials – IBM…
[laughter]
…saying that they want to use something I wrote. Because I put this on everything I write, now. They want to use something that I wrote in something that they wrote, and they were pretty sure they weren’t going to use it for evil, but they couldn’t say for sure about their customers. So could I give them a special license for that?
Of course. So I wrote back – this happened literally two weeks ago – “I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”
[laughter and applause]
And the attorney wrote back and said: “Thanks very much, Douglas!”"
http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions
That said, these kind of clauses do cause legal problems.
https://www.change.org/p/douglas-crockford-remove-the-not-ev...