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jhamlet / svg-react-loader

Webpack SVG to React Component Loader
MIT License
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MIT License amendment #35

Closed hunthunthunt closed 8 years ago

hunthunthunt commented 8 years ago

The MIT-style license for this package contains the line:

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

While I appreciate the sentiment of this statement, from a legal standpoint, it is problematic as this is now no longer free software - see the discussion here:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/47028/how-could-we-rewrite-the-no-evil-license-to-make-it-free

More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#.22Good.2C_not_Evil.22

I kindly request you to reconsider the addition of this line, as I would like to use this software, but am unable to do so given the current license.

jhamlet commented 8 years ago

@hunthunthunt as I do not see what evil could come from using SVGs as React components, I will change the license with release 0.4.0