New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU

Tina Gasperson writes "GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it. They call it a 'no military use' modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The developers told Newsforge why they did it, with commentary from OSI and FSF." Newsforge is also owned by OSTG, Slashdot's parent company.

nice press

[trybywrench]

I seriously doubt the military needs Gnutella for their supercomputing needs. Nice press release and good job on making the main page of slashdot to promote your project though *golf clap*.

FLGPL

[amightywind]

They call it a 'no military use' modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

I call it Copyfarleft.

Hippies

[Anonymous Coward]

"I hate hippies!" - Eric Cartman

In related news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Newsforge adds new "No Slashdot Use" language to their site terms of service after having their servers melted.

Kent, this is Jesus

[stealie72]

What do you think a phase conjugate tracking mirror is used for, Kent?

Seriously, good for them. It's sort of DRM of a different kind (imagine is Sony made you agree that you'd never use their product to do anything to help Vivendi), but I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere.

Sort of like this....

[MonkeyPaw]

Software developer: HEY ARMY GUYS! I said you can't use this software.

Army Guys: I have a big gun.

Software developer: I'm going back to my cube now.

Re:wankery indeed

[Registered Coward v2]

Have any of them actually read I, Robot?

Why read when you can watch the movie?

- R Daniel Oliver

I'm a pacifist ...

[karearea]

... I pacify people with my fists. ;-)

Re:Not so much.

[imthesponge]

No, it's called "preemptively defending".

Re:Psssh.

[kfg]

His fault for not evolving opposable thumbs.

KFG