🐧 Ethical Open License (EOL) – A Different Take on Open Source Licensing
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Open source has always been about freedom – freedom to use, modify, and distribute software without restrictions. But that also means there are zero restrictions on who can use it and how.
A lot of people are fine with that, but it raises some uncomfortable questions. What if open-source software is used for mass surveillance? Or for AI-driven discrimination? Or even for exploitation networks? At what point do we stop pretending that software is neutral?
The Ethical Open License (EOL) is an attempt to rethink this. It works like a standard open-source license, but with one key difference: it prohibits unethical use cases like mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and human exploitation.
Of course, this raises a lot of questions:
- Can ethics and open-source licensing even mix?
- Who decides what’s “ethical”?
- Is something like this enforceable?
A blog post dives deeper into these ideas:
What do you think? Would ethical restrictions in open source be a step forward or just a slippery slope?
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