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Before All Before reading all site contents about Ethic Software, I suggest you to take a look at a license which consider ethic values. This is the HESSLA license. I have read it and I think it can satisfy basic goals of "Ethic Software". Surely this license could be a good starting point, so I encourage you to read it. At last I think that it might be more useful to work with Hacktivismo to improve the HESSLA (if necessary) than spend a double amount of time to reach similar results. Ethic Software

Why a new license? Since few years I'm interested in Free Software. I think this is a great philosophy and its realistic application is wonderful. However I noticed that making software available to all people means even to make it usable by people who approve methods that I reject. Those people do not share my vision of the world and moreover use my software against ideals for which I fight everyday. So, I thought to propose a license which more or less reflects GPL license and meanwhile protects author's moral right. I propose to limit freedom of code execution for any purpose. That is what Free Software calls Freedom 0. Such limitations I propose, could only involve software execution, not copy, nor modifications, nor distributions, and it must be located within some rules to prevent that those limitations hurt people fundamental rights. I think it's right to guarantee the author that his time and his knowledge aren't applied in actions which not reflect his life style, his beliefs. It's time to look around us and consider things for which is necessary and is right to fight, things which truly "pay" years of studies and work. Not in my name.

fero on pdp.linux.it

05/02/12

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