[License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

[Tobie Langel]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 00:00 Gil Yehuda via License-discuss <
license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> wrote:

> Tobie
> One day my grandchild will ask me "what did you do to fight genocide in
> your day?" I hope to be able to give a better answer than "I helped make
> sure to put an anti-genocide clause in my source code licenses."
>
> She'll ask "that's all you did?" and I'll say "no, dear, I made sure that
> the license was still OSI-approved."
>
> I think part of the issue here is that in the face of real human issues,
> this seems like a misuse of energy. Licenses manage the use of copyright
> rights. We fight genocide with laws, with armies, maybe a good protest or
> two?
>

Oh come on, Gil!

As mentioned twice in my email, that’s a contrived example to show how I
believe section 5 and 6 of the OSD aren’t as tight as many suggest they are.

With all due respect, you’re not engaging in good faith, here.

—tobie

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