[License-discuss] Thoughts on the subject of ethical licenses

[Chris Travers]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:28 PM Coraline Ada Ehmke
<coraline at idolhands.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 8, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Chris Travers <chris at metatrontech.com> wrote:
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> > To clarify I think that any license which demands deference to one
> > side of a controversial social or political line over another to never
> > be considered OSI approved.  I think that's far more intrusive than
> > restrictions on how a piece of software may be used.
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> Can you provide an example of an ethical source license that is based on a controversial social or political line?

Human rights as we understand them are products of a cultural frame of
reference.  We cannot know what the limits of free speech, bodily
autonomy, etc, are without such cultural lines.  There's no reason to
think that all the signatories of the UDHR for example meant the same
thing by each of their understandings.

If someone from China uses this license and publishes a statement
indicating that the rights are to be interpreted as the CHinese
government interprets them, is that valid?  Or is it not?


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