RoversNOthers, AMEG & BiggerLaunchpads wrong license about netkan

[Ippo343]

You are right. Although it's technically not a WTFPL, so I think we should just use "unrestricted" (which is a fair description, I'd say).

[gertsonderby]

So long as CKAN isn't owned by, like, Microsoft, yeah, that seems about right. :-)

[Ippo343]

Closed by pull #79

[pjf]

The license is restricted, and I've marked it as such for a very good reason:

EXCEPTION: evil companies are not welcome here and should not, under any condition, use the licensed content for any purpose, even private !
These companies include: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung.
This (black)list is subject to change in the future, but removal of your company is not even possible in your craziest dream.

In other words, arbitrary people may not use the content at all, and that may be retroactively applied. Do you work for twitter? Great, you can't use that content, not even privately.

There's a very good reason these mods are marked as restricted. If you choose to mirror them, that's fine, but there's no way that we can provide metadata indicating that anyone may mirror them.

[gertsonderby]

@pjf My reading of the license is that it only restricts the companies from using it, not any employees on their own. So while Larry Page may be able to install one of these mods on his KSP at home, Google may not use it for any purpose. I do wonder about the implications of the final note. It might mean that Larry Page the person could take the material, remix it in some way, and release it under, oh, BSD license or something, opening it up for Google to use as a company.

[pjf]

My reading of the license is that it only restricts the companies from using it, not any employees on their own.

Exactly. This is what makes it a restricted license. Whether or not that includes employees is ambiguous. But there is no way that we can suggest this license is in any way free or open. It's not.

[gertsonderby]

Good point. The license boils down to 'some rights reserved', more or less.