Evil Licensing - http://jordanhall.co.uk/genera...

Google, who brought forward the specifics of the ‘do no evil’ ideology within consumer visible software, is refusing to host an open-source project due to slight, almost humorous, modifications to its license, denying ‘evil’ use of the licensed software.

Evil

Evil can be defined as morally objectionable behavior, morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds". Evil behaviour is that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones" - Shakespeare.

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is known for his work in the development of JavaScript, and for having popularized the data interchange format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). He also developed the JS Min JavaScript minifier script.

MIT

MIT is devoted to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in areas that contribute to or prosper in an environment of science and technology.

JS Min

JS Min (or JSMin) is a Javascript 'minifier'. JS Min is a script to remove comments and unnecessary whitespaces from JavaScript files.

Google Code

Google Code is Google's site for developer tools, APIs and technical resources. The site contains documentation on using Google developer tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products. There are APIs offered for almost all of Google's popular consumer products like Google Maps, YouTube, Google Apps and even Google Wave.

Google

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31, 2007). It is the largest American company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (as of October 31, 2007).

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