2024-11-28 ┃ edited ┃ RE: tante
Bonus question: Free Software licenses demand that you do not discriminate use (in the license). Which is why you cannot put "not for use in drones" in the license.
But if I license my code as MIT or whatever and in addition say: "If you work for Palantir, your emails will be used to make your use of the library harder and otherwise thrown in the trash" would that affect whether the powers that be consider the project free software?
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113562153445163402
@tante it vould not be considered free software.
"Ethical source" seems like the term to put into your preferred search engine :)
@tante If the history of Free Software demonstrates anything, then it's that being nice to your users is not a precondition for a piece of code to be considered FOSS.
2024-11-28 bignose ┃ edited ┃ 1🔗 2#️
A #FreeSoftware license grants the same permissions to all, and does not discriminate against any person or group of persons. If not, that is not a grant of […]
@tante let the fact that BSD has not flourished be your guide in answering that question.
@tante In my opinion, these are not free software. You discriminate against what you subjectively think is bad/wrong. That is the antithesis of free software. This is not freedom if you get to […]
@tante I'm not sure what you mean by "the powers that be", but in the case of, say, Debian - we would still consider the project and license free and compatible with Debian.
However, there […]
@tante i don‘t think so. the license is about the software, not about my actions as a maintainer. palantir can still use the code they have retrieved without restriction, but as a maintainer […]
@tante @glynmoody Yeah, it would.
But! That stuff shouldn't go in the license anyway. It's operational and should go in a README/CONTRIBUTING (or both!).
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@tante In the Switch's original hack, Fusée Gelée, the code includes the comment: '# this code is political -- it stands with those who fight for LGBT rights # don't like it? suck it up, or […]
@tante Once they have the code, they can do whatever they want.
If you offer any other "services", that's orthogonal to the code, so you can put any terms on it that you like. By services I […]
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