Re: [scikit-learn] climate friendly software licence

2020-06-29 Thread Olivier Grisel
Hi Sole, I personally support climate change actions very much and I am convinced climate change is the number 1 challenge of our time. In an attempt to act in a consistent way with that belief, I declined several times to keynote at conferences either organized by the fossil fuel industry or to c

Re: [scikit-learn] climate friendly software licence

2020-06-29 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Hi Sole, I personally believe that global warming is the most important threat to our well-being, together with the rise of fascism. However, legal matters are seldom easy (IANAL). It is unclear that those licenses are enforceable. See for instance the discussion from Bruce Perens, who has a huge

[scikit-learn] climate friendly software licence

2020-06-29 Thread Sole Galli via scikit-learn
Hello Scikit-learn team, I've come across this: https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1277136696568508418?s=12 Basically, it is an initiative to include in software license a prohibition of use by fossil fuel extractivist companies. I would like to know your views on this? Is this something