Why the original JSON license is considered non-free

I always think less of people who disagree with the FSF. What part don't you like, the rigorous application of logic in an area that is absolutely fraught with ambiguity and loopholes and edge cases (I.e. the law), or the part where they champion the freedom of information and the rights of the user in a world where trillions of dollars have a vested interest in not only squashing it, but also exploiting the lack of it?

The FSF is basically lawful good. The worst thing you can say about it is that RMS is sometimes too pedantic. But honestly, society is the one with the problem here if we think that stringent and consistent application of reasoning where it is most important is "off-putting".

As much as people might not like it, or think it's stupid to "nitpick" over, the JSON devs fucked up when they put a stupid joke into a legal document.

Also, while I'm here, I want to encourage developers to not try writing their own license. You WILL do it wrong and you might even mess up the part that excludes you from liability for your code messing up. You will also probably make it a pain in the ass for other people to re-use your code, be it a dev who doesn't know what he has to do to comply with your vaguely worded license terms, or a company who has to have lawyers analyze all licenses. If you used Apache or GPL, they probably have already looked at them and know the answers.

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