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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 04:29:45 JST tante

   Does anybody here know of an open source project that - while using a traditional license - enforces other social rules or makes political, ethical or social norms for the intended use of the project explicit and has any forms of consequences for disobedience?

   Think: "This project fundamentally disagrees with capitalism, Bug reports by Amazon employees will not be answered" or whatever social "contract" you can imagine.

   Not looking for projects that just say "please only use us in a certain way" but has some form of enforcement going that's not tied to licensing.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 04:31:34 JST tante

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     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?

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     VM (Vicky) Brasseur (vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 05:34:49 JST VM (Vicky) Brasseur

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     • Glyn Moody

     @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!).

     There's absolutely no problem with being clear that just because the license says a group can use the software, you are under NO obligation to help them in any way, shape, form.

     I encourage this practice for all I advise on such things.

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     Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 22:07:55 JST Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

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     any project with a CoC seems to fit the category in the question. e.g., in order to file bug reports, one must abide by the CoC, and that excludes people who, for whatever reason, won't go along with it