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Quorten Blog 1

First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Great reiteration of the purpose of copyright law in Bruce Peren’s article here, in this article evaluating the enforceablity of the claims in the Hippocratic License. Interesting to see another one of these kinds of licenses come about, and the criticisms about it. The license in nature is similar to Douglas Crockford’s JSMin and JSLint licenses that had the following term:

The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil

However, the Hippocratic License extends this with a longer description.

20190924/https://perens.com/2019/09/23/sorry-ms-ehmke-the-hippocratic-license-cant-work/
20190924/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford