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		MaxBarraclough on Jan 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guidance on Software Development and Open Source S... As detaro and kragen have pointed out, any software licence which prohibits military use is by definition neither a Free Software licence (under the FSF definition) [0] nor an Open Source licence (under the OSI definition). [1] [0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoMilitary [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864288

marcus_holmes on Jan 27, 2022 [–]

Neither of those things stops the GP from specifying who can use their code, only from classifying their code as FOSS if they do.

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