Github ToS and Open Source

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Ralf Mardorf schreef op 03-03-2017 22:23:

> That's just one example what happens in our communities. Very seldom a
> license gets malevolently offended, most of the times they are
> accidently offended and those who do it are usually willing to fix 
> their
> mistakes. Sometimes there is trouble for absolutely nothing.
> 
> At other times the license itself does cause the issue. Some Linux
> music software coders have written, that they don't allow that their
> software is used for religious or racist things, but i don't remember
> which project it is.

Like the "do no evil" thing of the aforementioned JSON (?) developer.

> I already posted the link to the frontend package, without an available
> package for the backend: http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/qsampler



> It's available by the official Arch Linux repositories and once it was
> also available by Debian/Ubuntu repositories, too. Arch Linux calls the
> license/s "GPL custom:exception", but a GPL with an exception actually
> isn't a GPL anymore.

Wouldn't it normally just be available in "non-free"?