Comment by jmiskovic
2 days ago
I love this bit <3
You may not use luxe for the following, no exceptions:
* military use
* the gambling industry
* crypto/NFTs/related
2 days ago
I love this bit <3
You may not use luxe for the following, no exceptions:
* military use
* the gambling industry
* crypto/NFTs/related
Sad to see this kind of anti open source licensing which reduces real code reuse.
Yeah, I planned on doing a crypto lottery game with NFTs and bombs as a consequence of losing. Such a shame really.
interesting because you could still make gatcha games which is just like digital gambling
Or you could use it to promote vaping, or a cult! How exactly would you write terms of service to preclude gatcha games? No in game transactions?
FYI it's gacha without the t
Gacha games are unquestionably gambling but you're right that there are loopholes here.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Sometimes, doing something is worse than doing nothing at all.
> For that matter, using licensing to restrict government abuse obviously isn’t going to work, because licensing relies on state enforcement of rights anyway. If the state itself is compromised, having a clever little license isn’t the failsafe the OES thinks it is. It’s really just asking the police to arrest ICE with extra steps. This isn’t hypothetical, this is already codified in the law: even the international treaties that govern copyright have explicit exemptions for government action related to security interests. A license like this one can only ever possibly do harm.
https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/10/29/ethical-source-is-a...
And if you want something more old-school:
> It is worse than ineffective; it is wrong too, because software developers should not exercise such power over what users do. Imagine selling pens with conditions about what you can write with them; that would be noisome, and we should not stand for it. Likewise for general software. If you make something that is generally useful, like a pen, people will use it to write all sorts of things, even horrible things such as orders to torture a dissident; but you must not have the power to control people's activities through their pens. It is the same for a text editor, compiler or kernel.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
The entire video game industry is presently mostly indistinguishable from the gambling industry, and cryptocurrencies are just a special case of cryptographic authentication.
That means these rules are subjective.
Does “military use” include selling games to soldiers to play them whilst on base? Seems like a strict interpretation would say “yes”.
Licenses like this are complete and total nonstarters for anyone serious. It’s risk and potential liability nightmares for no benefit.
So no ssl.