20 Dec 2006
December 20, 2006 4:04 pm GeneralMilitary usage of FOSS
Today, my RSS reader brought me the news about some US
military satellite with Linux on board. Which once again
raised in me one essential moral question: whether the
ethics of FOSS approves this area of usage.
What I’d love to see (and use in my code) is some optional
standard extension to GPL (other OSS licenses?) which would
explicitly forbid any usage in military organizations
(including military R&D). Any (FSF) lawyers around?