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Stephen Hayes

@stephenaytch.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

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Bo Morgan

@neptune22222.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Copyleft Won't Solve All Problems, Just Some of Them Toward a Broad Ethical Software Licensing CoalitionWe are passionate about and dedicated to the cause of software freedom and rights because proprietary software harmfully takes control of and agency in software away from users. In 2014, we started talking about FOSS as fundamental to “ethical software” (and, more broadly “ethical technology”) — which contrasts FOSS with the unethical behavior that Big Tech carries out with proprietary software. Some FOSS critics (circa 2018) coined the phrase “ethical source” — which outlined a new approach to these issues — based on the assumption that software freedom activists were inherently complicit in the bad behavior of Big Tech and other bad actors since the inception of FOSS. These folks argue that copyleft — the only form of software licensing that makes any effort to place ethical and moral requirements on FOSS redistributors/reusers — has fundamentally ignored the larger problems of society such as human rights abuses and unbridled capitalism. They propose new copyleft-like licenses, which, rather than focusing on the requirement of disclosure of source code, they instead use the mechanisms of copyleft to mandate behaviors in areas of ethics generally unrelated to software. For example, the Hippocratic License molds a copyleft clause into a generalized mechanism for imposing a more comprehensive moral code on software redistributors/re-users. In essence, they argue that copylefted software (such as software under the GPL) is unethical software. This criticism of copyleft reached crescendo in the last three weeks as pundits began to criticize FOSS licenses for failing to prohibit Putin from potentially using FOSS in his Ukrainian invasion or other bad acts.

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This is a long read, but I think it has a much more coherent take on the idea of creating ethical, or political, and anti-capitalistic software licenses:

sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copylef...

Light

@light.noc.social.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

I wonder if you can #copyleft an idea?

Like, you've done some research and you've figured out a method, technique, algorithm, etc, but you don't have any code or a prototype.
Can you make sure that if anyone builds anything with it, they can't make it proprietary?

#freesoftware #freehardware […]

Bo Morgan

@neptune22222.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

If food, shelter, and medicine are the three basic physical human needs, I see these as basic human rights.

I think medicine and medical technology should obviously be an example of Free Manufacturing, based on Free Software and Free Hardware, and free manufacturing processes. I'm excited to […]

Bo Morgan

@neptune22222.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

I'm working on a concept of Free Manufacturing, which is an idea that includes Free Hardware, Free Software, and an idea that anyone anywhere can manufacture products independently, to make a living, or otherwise help their local communities. This is a very rough draft, and I'm very open to […]