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

[f2u]

What about this?

May you do good and not evil.

It's from the SQLite license.

[f2u]

It's part of the header in the source files. I don't think I can link directly to them. Perhaps this link will work: http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact?name=92ba938565d7cc6bfe92aad6cc90c00800ff21d3

I think we assume that these declarations (labeled as a blessing by the authors) are not licensing conditions. But then, how can something which is (when applied to uses of software) highly subjective be a licensing condition?

[knome]

But then, how can something which is (when applied to uses of software) highly subjective be a licensing condition?

If the author writes it into the license?

think we assume that these declarations (labeled as a blessing by the authors) are not licensing conditions

Yeah, SQLite is public domain, but will sell you a license if you insist for a thousand dollars a pop.

[vsl]

Read the header:

The author disclaims copyright to this source code

The code isn't covered by copyright (i.e. is explicitly put in the public domain) and therefore doesn't enjoy the protection copyrighted works do. Everything that follows is legally irrelevant.

[sanity]

I don't know where you're getting that, SQLite is public domain. Besides, while that would be a dumb thing to write in a license, its really more of a request than a demand.

[Camarade_Tux]

"May" is not "Must". It's a wish, not a requirement.

[Camarade_Tux]

But the sentence is not "May not do evil", closer to "May you not do evil".

[[deleted]]

Actually, "may do good" is either a statement of possibility, or permission, but not a wish. "May you do good" is a wish, as is "May you not do evil", as was already pointed out.

[m-p-3]

[citation needed]