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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 23:22:10 JST翠星石 @icedquinn >if you put like "don't do evil" in a license or a motto
Do not do this, that makes the license proprietary as that infringes on freedom 0.
"evil" is subjective, what you think is evil and what a typical business thinks is evil is almost always radically different.
Copyright does not cover the usage of software, only distribution and modification by the way - unfortunately attempts to restrict usage are sadly often possible under contract terms.
One example of such proprietary software license is the original JSON license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON
If you want to make corpos seethe, you should write the best software you possibly can and license it under the AGPLv3+ - nothing makes corpos seethe more than excellent software that can't be made proprietary.