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Don't call this software “Free and Open-Source” #37

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ghost opened this issue Oct 20, 2017 · 0 comments
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Don't call this software “Free and Open-Source” #37

ghost opened this issue Oct 20, 2017 · 0 comments

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ghost commented Oct 20, 2017

The “Waqf” General Public License does not appear to be free/libre and open source, as it seems incompatible with definitions of both “free software”

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

and likely also “open source”.

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

In spite of that, the “Waqf” General Public License states that the user “may not use it to harm others or violate the permissive principles of Islam”.

Unless this is a wrong translation, or I have missed something crucial, I would like to ask that you remove any mention of this being free/libre software from the README file, as well as the project's website.

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