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Ask HN: Software licensing excluding military use?

I have a piece of software in the robotics / computer vision domain I'll be open sourcing soon. I want to prevent any military from legally using it (I know that if they find it useful, they'll just use it anyway - that's not the point).

Does anyone know of a well behaved license that has this feature?

EDIT: I understand that restricting usage would make this not 'free as in speech' software, however I don't really mind.

Further clarification: I mean use by a military organisation for any purpose. If it makes it (somehow) into accounting software used for running military procurement/payroll or medical devices used in a military hospital, I also want that to be against the license.

59 points atroyn 9 years ago 71 comments

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