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

[Russell Nelson]

On 3/10/20 11:13 PM, Grahame Grieve wrote:
> The question for me is whether there's some useful middle ground. Is 
> there value in having an ethical use license where the creator gives 
> up many but not all rights, in a way that respects some core tenets of 
> the open source movement, and where the ethical restrictions are 
> careful, and that this place, while not proper open source, is still a 
> recognisable benefit with a name like Ethical Public Source or something?
Well, yes, that is what Ethical Software Definition is for. Nobody is 
saying that there's anything wrong with having such a concept as Ethical 
Software. We're saying that there is zero overlap with Open Source.