On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 9:29 PM Coraline Ada Ehmke <[email protected]> wrote:
> So asking for voluntary donations or code contributions is verboten? > Software license agreements are conditions upon which permission is granted to do activities which copyright or (unfortunately in some jurisdictions) patent law require permission for. If what you wish to discuss is voluntary then it is part of a community statement of their own values, part of freedom of association, or in some other document. If it is voluntary then should not be in a document claimed to be a license agreement. One of the many problems with some software developers is that they are unwilling to consider the impacts of their code (written in software or license agreements) has on society as a whole. I think it is time that they took some responsibility, and started to ask if software authors should be able to unilaterally implement public policy in software and software licenses which would be better implemented via democratic institutions (UDHR Article 21).
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