Re: HIPPOCRATIC LICENSE

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:

> Did we discuss this license?
>
> https://github.com/EthicalSource/contributor_covenant/blob/release/LICENSE.md
> https://firstdonoharm.dev/version/3/0/core.txt
>
> Quoting the core variant below for ease of review.  It looks challenging
> from a DFSG-perspective to me.

How could this license possibly not violate DSFG#5?

I sincerely hope that these kinds of nonsensical licenses do not become
a new trend. Yes, I am all for ethical standards, but thats why we
already have laws and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself.
I don't see any point repeating it in a license, other than virtue
signaling.

This is not even like the JSON "do no evil" license – the way I read it,
it demands that the "Licensee" complies with all the listed ethnical
standards all the time, not just in activitites related to using the
software, but IMHO even that would be against DSFG#6.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html