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That is vague enough to not be useful. But couldn’t “doing something” be a license change going forward. Seems like a reasonable application of ethics. I don
by rileymat2 3y ago
That is vague enough to not be useful.
But couldn’t “doing something” be a license change going forward. Seems like a reasonable application of ethics.
I don’t see a huge issue here.
- dcow 3y ago> That is vague enough to not be useful. I mean that is the issue. There's nothing novel or insightful about this piece on ethics in the least. "Hand wave, hand wave, software engineers should be obliged to know about and actively mitigate all the downstream effects of their software, but only if it's evil". Yeah, okay, move along.
- kazinator 3y agoIt's possibly a huge issue because it could turn a free license into a non-free license. Words in a license will not stop an evil-doer.