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A while ago, some licenses started cropping up that tried to disallow certain use. E.g. the anti ICE license, anti-996 license and similar. Bruce Perens wrote
by st_goliath 4y ago
A while ago, some licenses started cropping up that tried to disallow certain use. E.g. the anti ICE license, anti-996 license and similar.
Bruce Perens wrote about this in late 2019[1][2], specifically focusing on the "hippocratic license", proponents of which IIRC at the time attempted to spark a debate if the Open Source definition needs to be changed, to allow discrimination like this.
[1] https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licenses/ https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licens...
[2] https://perens.com/2019/09/23/sorry-ms-ehmke-the-hippocratic-license-cant-work/ https://perens.com/2019/09/23/sorry-ms-ehmke-the-hippocratic...
- rsynnott 4y agoEven before that, there was the JSON.org "do no evil" license.