An Ethical License for Open Source

Olivier Lange @olange CC BY-SA 24/02/2021

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The Hippocratic License 2.1 — An Ethical License for Open Source Projects
►https://firstdonoharm.dev
« For too long, we as software developers have divorced ourselves from the consequences of the code that we write. We have told ourselves that development is a pure and abstract pursuit, and have spent our careers writing programs with the goals of clarity, conciseness, readability, performance, and elegance.
But we are starting to realize that the software that we create has a real and lasting impact on the world in which we live.
Politics and software are so tangled that they cannot be reasonably separated. […]
Introducing the Hippocratic License: an Ethical Source license that specifically prohibits the use of software to violate universal standards of human rights, and embodying the principles of Ethical Source Software. »
#openSource #licence #governance #values #ethicalSource

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jeanmarie @jeanmarie CC BY-NC-SA 29/06/2020

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Climate Strike Software
Climate Strike Software is software that uses the Climate Strike License, a software license that developers can use to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction.
Une #licence_logicielle interdisant l’utilisant par des sociétés contribuant au #changement_climatique via l’extraction d’énergies fossiles.
▻https://github.com/climate-strike/license
Via ▻https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1277136696568508418
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jeanmarie @jeanmarie CC BY-NC-SA
- b_b @b_b PUBLIC DOMAIN 30/06/2020
  
  Un peu en lien avec ▻https://macwright.org/2020/06/21/ethics-in-geo.html qui mentionne ►https://firstdonoharm.dev déjà cité ici ►https://seenthis.net/messages/843081
  Ethos licensing is a way of using the power of copyright to do more than just protect your rights or give them away: it’s the idea that you could prevent human rights abusers from using your work via legal means.
  It probably won’t work, at least how you would hope. We’re in the age of legal realism, in which power and money matters more than the letter of the law. And you probably shouldn’t call it ‘open source’ because the OSI, the organization that controls the term (somehow?) says that ethos licensing isn’t open source. But using an exotic license would work in the case of large companies which have explicit lists of allowed & banned licenses, like Google.
  
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cy_altern @cy_altern CC BY-SA 14/04/2020

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The Hippocratic License 2.1 : An Ethical License for Open Source
►https://firstdonoharm.dev
For too long, we as software developers have divorced ourselves from the consequences of the code that we write. We have told ourselves that development is a pure and abstract pursuit, and have spent our careers writing programs with the goals of clarity, conciseness, readability, performance, and elegance.
But we are starting to realize that the software that we create has a real and lasting impact on the world in which we live.
Politics and software are so tangled that they cannot be reasonably separated. Consider the GPS software that tells you how to get to a restaurant; it’s also used to direct military drones to their targets. The facial recognition software that unlocks your phone? It’s being used to record, track, and target the activities of political dissenters.
voir aussi : The Ethical Source Definition ▻https://ethicalsource.dev/definition
#Hippocratic_License #open_source #ethique

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- RastaPopoulos @rastapopoulos CC BY-NC 14/04/2020
  
  #politique #logiciel_libre
  
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