It's a cool license in that it triggered Google enough to bar the use of jslint and led IBM's lawyers to seek out a special exemption to allow them and their customers to use JSON for evil.
No company's PR will ever tell you what the soul of a company is like but their lawyers will indirectly tell you everything.
Plenty (in not most) legal cases hinge upon non specifically defined terms hence lot of lawyering is not "this is definitely legal/illegal" but "what's the risk of this going wrong if we face a jury?"
Companies take tens of thousands of legal risks every day and they single out particular risks over others to try and indemnify themselves because they think that risk is serious.
Theyre not going to admit that theyre worried that the company is evil enough to qualify under a reasonable person's interpretation but thats what theyre thinking.
It's the same with your employment contract. The level of nasty bullshit they put in there ("lawyers made us!") is probably the most accurate meter of how horrible (or not) the company will be towards you as an employer.
That’s a ridiculous take. The fact is “evil” is so ill defined that it would have been an unlimited liability. That’s a reflection of the world, not IBM.