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This is a great point, and perhaps we do need a new popular license or set of variants that exclude certain industries. "MIT-Peaceful" perhaps. I know very man
by ohwellhere 2y ago
This is a great point, and perhaps we do need a new popular license or set of variants that exclude certain industries. "MIT-Peaceful" perhaps.
I know very many people who would refuse to work for certain companies and in certain industries — and have rejected certain projects — but would happily contribute to something MIT licensed that would end up in those systems anyway!
- rgrmrts 2y agoThere are two licenses that include restrictions like that that I know of: - https://github.com/raisely/NoHarm/blob/publish/LICENSE.md https://github.com/raisely/NoHarm/blob/publish/LICENSE.md - https://firstdonoharm.dev/ https://firstdonoharm.dev/
- someplaceguy 2y ago> perhaps we do need a new popular license or set of variants that exclude certain industries. Such a license would not be considered open source or Free Software. Someone else posted this link about a similar situation in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Software_license_for_%22Good,_not_Evil%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Software_lic...