Half-joke: is there any open software license that explicitly forbids usage to racist, homophobes, transphobes, utter fascists and the like?

I know it's like fencing the world, but at least as a way to make some statements clear.

#OSS #FOSS

@kkarhan That's an interesting starting point, since MIT allows modifications 🤔

@stage7 in theory people could take something like #0BSD and add a #antifascist clause of 161 words to it, creating i.e. "#161BSD"…

#NotLegalAdvice OFC, but unless your license has a #Copyleft clause re: it's #antifascist terms it's more of a symbolic gesture trivially undone by constantly #forking it!

@kkarhan Sure, nobody pretending to be lawyers here, but aren't small gestures the ones that can ignite a spark that causes a larger fire?

The point has always been "I can do nothing to prevent a bad actor from using my work because from the very first moment I release it they will do whatever they please," but at least to make them feel bad about it.

I've been told about https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/ and it looks very much like what I'm looking for, so I'll read a bit about it to see if it fits me :)

Ethical Source Licenses

The Organization for Ethical Source is a global, multidisciplinary community devoted to centering justice, equity, and human rights in the practice of open source.

@stage7 personally I do wish for #FLOSS to have more teeth…

  • I mean, #GPLv2 got confirmed as valid in Germany and the #license terms successfully enforced.

The only restrictions I'm aware of are "[legal and/or business] deals that have unexpectably bad terms and conditions" (aimed at exploiting "someones lack of expefience, ability to make informed decisions or socioeconomic situation [of distress]") which mostly aims at criminalizing #PaydayLoans at extortive APRs, rentseeking, discrimination and other tactics preying on #consumers.

Plus #FLOSS licenses ain't the norm (and I'm pretty shure that we rather see #CCSS banned than #AntifascistLicense|s being struck down!)…

  • OFC this is #NotLegalAdvice and #speculation, tho OFC one has the freedom to decline business based off objective and/or terms/justifications, like throwing a Neonazi out of a bar.

#AntifascistLicenses #Antifascism #Licensing #FOSS #OpenSource

@kkarhan @stage7

An explicitly anti-capitalist license that only allows full rights to worker cooperative and other non-exploitative business entities should catch the same people, and would make more sense.