Re: [Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

2019-10-06 Thread softwdensky
That would mean that after all we must wait impatiently (because of the pollution issues, mainly) for the time when some degree of great number of people desire and demand their freedoms of their free will. Would we only be able to bring the date forward? This is not tempting you into

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

2019-10-06 Thread andyprough
Sounds lovely and utopian and completely impossible to enforce in the real world. You'd have to install a proprietary back door that you could use to spy on the users and to shut down the operation of the program if you disagreed with their use. But your proprietary code and spying would

[Trisquel-users] Re : An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

2019-10-06 Thread lcerf
As usual, rms explains it best: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

2019-10-06 Thread commodore256
It seems redundant because if they use it for harm, they can get sued anyway and even if they couldn't, people wouldn't blame the software, they would blame the user. A lot of free software users' love for freedom goes beyond the realm software and have noticed no matter what the

[Trisquel-users] An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm

2019-10-06 Thread tegskywalker
https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-license-requires-users-do-no-harm/ "Coraline Ada Ehmke wants to give her fellow developers more control over how their software is used. Software released under her new "Hippocratic License" can be shared and modified for almost any purpose, with one