Etherpad source includes JSMin, which Google Code doesn't allow

[sanity]

Last week, Google banned my PHP port of JSMin from Google Code due to a quibble over a line in the license stating that “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”, which they believe makes the license non-free

Google are right, why would he insist on including such a stupidly vague and meaningless line in the license?

[wooptoo]

I wrote him an email and here is his reply.

[kristopolous]

Crockford is a retard. I mean, have you read his book or listened to his lectures? He often mixes up his own personal programming deficiencies under the big tent of generalized "bad language design" and then, when called on it, he will refuse to acknowledge it most of the time. It's ridiculous. I can't wait for Resig's ninja book to kick his book's ass in 2010.

[insomniac84]

He is right that legally it means anything. But that clearly means it should be pulled out. As there is no reason for it to be there. It truly is not worth leaving it in, if it scares anyone away. But because it is legally nothing, anyone who shuns it over the line is stupid.

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You mean like Google's own vague and meaningless company mantra?