There's the General Free Software Talk forum for these discussions. This is a
Trisquel-specific forum for its users.
The Hippocratic License is like all these other non-free social justice
licenses; the Commons Clause, Fair Source, Coopyright, anti-996, and using
CopyFarLeft licenses like the Peer Production License with software. They're
not free code software, because they violate every one of the four
Don't you guys have a conscience about disturbing a kind of timeline of a
thread?
Yeah... there's a problem I have with this idea...
It's called free will.
That is something proprietors think they can control if they are sneaky
enough and clever enough.
So I guess to summarize, such a thought process doesn't exist within someone
who has an actual conscience.
Of course good or evil is judged by the interests of vested interests.
Although not as explicit as several decades ago. There will come a time when
this problem must be solved decisively. Isn't it better to have some
consensus on strategy now?
After all, only common sense is the standard for
Imagine of there was something like a "you must not use this for terrorism"
clause, how are you really going to stop them? It would also set a bad
precedent for GPL licensed software. Not only would this be GPL incompatible
even for linking, but it would increase the liabilities for GPL
When we share software, we are definitely doing "evil" to proprietary
software companies and the capitalist governments behind them. But doing
"evil" to the enemies is doing good for free software movement. The question
is, where we are doing good or evil, this question is judged by whom
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
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
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
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
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