kemitchell · September 28, 2024 06:50 · Redwoodtj · Nov 19, 2022 · dmvjs · Jul 21, 2023
diff --git a/crockford-on-json-license b/crockford-on-json-license
 https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=39m45s

 When I put the reference implementation onto the website I needed to
 put a software license on it.

 And I looked at all the licenses that were available, and there were a lot
 of them. And I decided that the one I liked the best was the MIT License,
 which was a notice that you would put on your source and it would say,
 "you're allowed to use this for any purpose you want, just leave the
 notice in the source and don't sue me."

 I love that license.  It's really good.

 But this was late in 2002, you know, we'd just started the war on terror,
 and, you know, we were going after the evildoers with the president and
 the vice president, and I felt like, "I need to do my part".

 So I added one more line to my license, was that, "the Software shall
 be used for Good, not Evil."  And thought: I've done my job!

 About once a year I'll get a letter from a crank who says, "I should
 have a right to use it for evil! I'm not gonna use it until you change
 your license!"

 Or they'll write to me and say, "how do I know if it's evil or not? I
 don't think it's evil, but someone else might think it's evil, so I'm
 not gonna use it."

 Great. It's working. My license works. I'm stopping the evildoers.

 ...

 Also about once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a
 different lawyer, at a company. I don't want to embarrass the company by
 saying their name, so I'll just say their initials, "IBM," saying that
 they want to use something that I wrote, 'cause I put this on everything
 I write now. They want to use something that I wrote and something that
 they wrote and they're pretty sure they weren't gonna use it for evil,
 but they couldn't say for sure about their customers. So, could I give
 them a special license for that?

 So, of course!

 So I wrote back---this happened literally two weeks ago---I said, "I
 give permission to IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use
 JSLint for evil."

 And the attorney wrote back and said, "Thanks very much, Douglas!"
	https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=39m45s

	When I put the reference implementation onto the website I needed to
	put a software license on it.

	And I looked at all the licenses that were available, and there were a lot
	of them. And I decided that the one I liked the best was the MIT License,
	which was a notice that you would put on your source and it would say,
	"you're allowed to use this for any purpose you want, just leave the
	notice in the source and don't sue me."

	I love that license. It's really good.

	But this was late in 2002, you know, we'd just started the war on terror,
	and, you know, we were going after the evildoers with the president and
	the vice president, and I felt like, "I need to do my part".

	So I added one more line to my license, was that, "the Software shall
	be used for Good, not Evil." And thought: I've done my job!

	About once a year I'll get a letter from a crank who says, "I should
	have a right to use it for evil! I'm not gonna use it until you change
	your license!"

	Or they'll write to me and say, "how do I know if it's evil or not? I
	don't think it's evil, but someone else might think it's evil, so I'm
	not gonna use it."

	Great. It's working. My license works. I'm stopping the evildoers.

	...

	Also about once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a
	different lawyer, at a company. I don't want to embarrass the company by
	saying their name, so I'll just say their initials, "IBM," saying that
	they want to use something that I wrote, 'cause I put this on everything
	I write now. They want to use something that I wrote and something that
	they wrote and they're pretty sure they weren't gonna use it for evil,
	but they couldn't say for sure about their customers. So, could I give
	them a special license for that?

	So, of course!

	So I wrote back---this happened literally two weeks ago---I said, "I
	give permission to IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use
	JSLint for evil."

	And the attorney wrote back and said, "Thanks very much, Douglas!"