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>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).

So... you don't actually want to prevent any military from using it, you just want to virtue-signal?

I'm not even being sarcastic here; this distinction is pretty important to the license you choose and how you enforce it.

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I do want to prevent the military from using it, but I am also aware that militaries frequently do illegal things, and I don't have the resources to take them to task over it.

I am a signatory to the autonomous weapons non-proliferation petition from the future-of-life institute: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/

I am hoping that by including a non-military-use clause, if I ever do have the resources to fight military use of my software, I will be able to do so.

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