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According to the OSI's "Open Source Definition" [1], indeed. It forbids discrimination against any person or group to use the software. Most public source code
by Findecanor 2y ago
According to the OSI's "Open Source Definition" [1], indeed. It forbids discrimination against any person or group to use the software.
Most public source code repositories on the web require every piece of software published on them to be under an OSI-approved license. Not licensing under an OSI-approved license could therefore impede the chances of getting your software distributed and used.
I've been thinking on a related issue: perhaps there is a need to formulate a wider but still closed definition that repositories could adopt that would also include some "ethical" source code licenses and "Non-AI licenses" [2].
[1] https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
[2] https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses