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JSMin's license is simply MIT + this added clause:

  The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
Google Code takes a hard stance against license proliferation, and only allows the ones on their minimized list, period.

I think Hipp took a better approach with Sqlite -- the code is in the public domain, and instead of a license the code comes with headers containing this simple admonition/blessing:

  May you do good and not evil
  May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
  May you share freely, never taking more than you give.



Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around 16 minutes in: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ ).

I think that if you want to appease legal departments, your best bet is a well known licence, written by lawyers (eg Apache 2.0).


Yes, Moral Rights are even more of a pain in the ass than the AGPL could ever hope to be.




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