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JSON cannot be used for evil, unless you have permission from Crockford: http://www.json.org/license.html

Incidentally, IBM have permission from Crockford to be evil or to have evil sublicensees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764024

And that clause is (widely considered) a bad idea, because "evil" is relative (e.g. some people think abortions are evil, others don't).

"must not be used for evil"

But what's evil? If you eat the deer, is hunting it evil?

Yes, some of us regard the unnecessary killing of other sentient creatures as evil.

So you're vegan and don't use any animal products?

Linux is just used for embedded stuff now, what's the difference if they use Linux or some custon Ada realtime OS?

The valley wouldn't exist without the cold war, there is always two sides of the coin.

... because guns are evil?