Lufthansa apparently is the worst airline, shall I change my license to reflect that?

Hello,

I have a question for you (the general public, the community, the...)

Would it be considered bad/immature/evil/* to add a clause to the license for the binaries which denies for instance Lufthansa to use NSClient++? This would not change the source code (which would still be OSS) but it would restrict them from using the binaries I provide.

The reason in short is they f*cked me right up the *ss when I was flying with them last week (ended up getting home one day later paying over 300 euro extra). Then in addition to this their "customer support" where extremely unfriendly and unhelpful. In essence they told "ohh... your life sucks, go buy a new one, I don't really care..."

And I am thinking (since I have hits from them) they are essentially using my program for free yet they care nothing for me when I am their customer?

So this is one of those questions, shall I give freely to someone who only takes from me?

Michael Medin

Comments

1. seymom -- 2010-06-01 04:11

Doubt if it'll make any difference. What you've put on this page is enough for me to put them down the list of options - that's probably more powerful advertising than stopping them use your software.

2. leonardo -- 2010-06-16 10:25

If I'm not wrong the current license is a non-copylefted simplified BSD/X11/MIT-style, so legally you can change it whatever you want, for source or binaries, even if you accepted code from other people. But I don't know if the change would be effective since Lufthansa can use binaries from other people without your restriction.

On the other hand, I think it's not a good idea changing the license every time you don't like a company/people, you should maintain a long black list ;)

3. jentyk -- 2010-06-25 12:07

I would give them one more chance and complained about what had happened. Maybe it was just a question of bad employee? However, if they do not respond to your complain appropriately I would go for banning them from using your software. Let's kick f in the ass!