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Not just lawyers - anyone sensible. It's not open source any more - you can't restrict what open source is used for - and extremely vague.

DIY licenses are a bad idea. In this day and age you should probably pick between MIT, Apache, LGPL and GPL, and maybe something like the Affero GPL for open source, in order of how much they limit people using your code.



doesn't stop the code being used in google android though ~ http://google.com/codesearch?q=%22The%20Software%20shall%20b... in "git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/external/webkit.git› V8Binding› v8› tools› jsmin.py" for example using this license ~ http://google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#N6Qhr5kJSgQ/V8Binding/v...


Maybe they just figured it's unenforceable BS and went ahead anyway.




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