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No, thanks. I don't want to see "Users from North Korea, Syria and Iran are not allowed to use this Project" I am already banned from half of the Internet due to sanctions against the asshole leaders of my country. And GitLab has already banned Iranian IP addresses. This license will not stop those big bad organizations or governments, but the average citizen from accessing the projects. I know it is not the purpose of the license to prohibit the citizens of hateful regimes to use the projects, but I can't be optimistic about the effect it might have on people living under tyrannical regimes.
Strictly speaking I think such provisions would be unenforceable in those circumstances anyway so doesn't the effect kind of cancel out? Don't get me wrong I get where you're coming from but why would we imagine such a license has an effect in nations that are already hostile to those ideas and probably have broken judicial systems anyway?
I think such a licence would need very careful wording. Wording that concentrates on the entity or organisation using rather then jurisdiction.
GPL claims free as in speech not beer. Whereas this would be removing that very concept. By suggesting use for some ideas is not allowed.
I can def see the advantage. Especially for people developing social software. But trying to form a licence like that. While not running fowl of existing GPL restrictions. Would take some seriose legal understanding. As making gpled current libraries incompatible. Could totally remove existing work to expand upon. Removing most developers desire to place the effort needed for the new software.
Would be interesting to watch the project form though. Unfortunately it would be very much like watching a dangerous stunt. Facinating as much for the risk of failure as that of hoping for success.