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Re: [hrpc] Hippocratic License 3.0 - open source license

Mallory Knodel <mknodel@cdt.org> Fri, 22 October 2021 15:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hrpc] Hippocratic License 3.0 - open source license
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On 10/22/21 9:35 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 05:40:36PM -0500,
>   Dietrich Ayala <autonome@gmail.com> wrote
>   a message of 26 lines which said:
>
>> HL 3.0 is an open source software license grounded in intl human
>> rights norms.
> It's interesting to see that they point towards specific oppressors:
>
>> The Licensee SHALL NOT, whether directly or indirectly, through
>> agents or assigns: [...] Be an individual or entity that engages in
>> any commercial transactions with the Taliban; or is a
>> representative, agent, affiliate, successor, attorney, or assign of
>> the Taliban.
> I mean, I agree that the talibans are awfully bad and I certainly do
> not want to help them. But they are not (unfortunately) the only bad
> people on the planet. Why mentioning them and not [insert your most
> hated state or organisation]?
Equally baffling to me. Why go through the trouble of listing enemies 
when really what's needed is defining bad behaviour a la Hippocrates.

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Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy and Technology
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