"It looks like Meta is trying to push a license that has some trappings of an open source license but, in fact, has the opposite result. Additionally, the Acceptable Use Policy, which the license requires adherence to, lists prohibited behaviors that are very expansively written and could be very subjectively applied – if you send out a mass email, could it be considered spam?"

#KarenSandler, Software Freedom Conservancy

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/llama_is_not_open_source/

#OpenSource #SharedSource #EthicalSource

The intellectual bug in the kernel of the "Ethical Source" movement, is an inversion of the subject/object relationship, between programmers and software. Instead of calling on programmers to refuse to deploy software in unethical contexts (eg helping ICE kidnap children), they condemn Free Code software for being used in such situations. As if it's the software, not the deployers, who have agency in the situation.

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#EthicalSource

The #ExitToCommunity of the day: The leading code of conduct for #opensource projects is now being stewarded by a membership association.

RT @EthicalOSS@twitter.com

Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@twitter.com) on Contributor Covenant’s exit to community:

“A New Chapter for Contributor Covenant”
https://ethicalsource.dev/blog/new-chapter-for-contributor-covenant/

#EthicalSource

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EthicalOSS/status/1397972191329800192

Peace Public License, a new #EthicalSource license designed to be “a copy-farleft cooperative non-violent public license which was more publically available and which was more openly and actively maintained”. https://github.com/brightly-salty/peace-license