I also like the ACAB license

Quote: "No business entity where the ratio of pay (salaried, freelance, stocks, or other benefits) between the highest and lowest individual in the entity is greater than 50 : 1 may use the work for any reason."

but it's not really applicable to this project.

#software #licenses

Been working on an open source thing. yada yada yada - which license to pick? MIT is the obvious choice but has the big problem that it is ethically indifferent. If I do not want my project to be used for bad and evil things, what do I do?

Hippocratic License? Do No Harm License?

Thoughts?

#ethics #software #licenses

Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/brendan-carr-pretends-to-be-tough-demands-broadcasters-support-disastrous-war/

Binance eyes five new Asia licenses as crypto adoption accelerates in APAC

https://misryoum.com/us/markets/binance-eyes-five-new-asia-licenses-as-crypto/

Binance’s regional head has confirmed that the exchange is expecting five additional licenses across Asia this year. Summary Binance expects to secure five additional licenses across Asia this year, which would expand its regulatory presence to more than 20...

#Binance #eyes #five #new #Asia #licenses #crypto #adoption #accelerates #APAC #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

2 trans men sue Kansas over law invalidating their licenses and about 1,700 others

https://misryoum.com/us/us-news/2-trans-men-sue-kansas-over-law-invalidating/

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver's licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people's gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing.”The...

#trans #men #sue #Kansas #over #law #invalidating #their #licenses #and #about #1700 #others #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

#ICE #Took Their #Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back
#Immigrants are being #released from detention #without #documents #proving their #status.
The documents serve as #proof of their #active #immigration #cases, #pending #visa #applications, or #US #citizenship, as well as #work #permits, #SocialSecurity #cards, and driver's #licenses. One immigration #attorney told Julia that this practice was “more the rule than the exception.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ice-detention-keeping-not-returning-immigration-documents-work-permits/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-02-24-2026

https://n1cck.us/blog/new-amateurs-2025/

#amateurradio #hamradio #licenses

Creative Commons licenses need an nAI option added to their usual SA BY NC ND list to explicitly rule out copyrighted work being fed to an AI for training. I am surprised this isn't yet a thing. The ArXiv should give us the option to add such an option to our uploaded material.

#cc #creativecommons #licenses #coding #programming #opensource #arxiv #math #maths #artificialintelligence #ai

How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps

The big push for state digital driver's #licenses that we’ve been warning about is effectively a movement to increase the power of big companies and government to control individuals. One feature of the licenses most states are adopting that may prove to be particularly dangerous is #revocation — how and when people’s IDs can be canceled
#unperson #ID #privacy #security

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/un-personing-with-digital-id