If the use of free software in the military becomes very widespread, the free software movement is going to have to respond in some fashion or risk losing a lot of developers to an alternative license. The free software movement is largely ethics-driven; people who have a problem with their free software being sold as proprietary software will almost certainly have a problem with their software being used to kill people in an unjust war.
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If the use of free software in the military becomes very widespread, the free software movement is going to have to respond in some fashion or risk losing a lot of developers to an alternative license. The free software movement is largely ethics-driven; people who have a problem with their free software being sold as proprietary software will almost certainly have a problem with their software being used to kill people in an unjust war.