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		seabee on Sept 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA built a NoSQL database If there are plenty of good uses for the code, I'd still want to improve it, even if I find out it's used by the Kitten Krusher 3000. Unless a "please don't use this code for evil" license is legally binding, that's just the nature of open source.

MrMorden on Sept 4, 2011 [–]

A "please don't use this code for evil" license would, by definition, not be open-source. (Also, such a license would almost certainly be ignored by evildoers.)

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