Rise of Ethical Source Software Licenses

Free and Open Source Software FOSS: Core Principles

Both aim to encourage FOSS growth, but free-software licenses prioritize user rights while open-source licenses enable broader collaboration.

Red Hat's open source participation guidelines

... source “free software,” which emphasizes its ethical foundations. Typically this freedom is provided through an open source license. The ...

Ethics in Open Source: Responsibilities and Sustainability

Changing perspectives on ethical engineering · Knee-jerk technological solutions · Ethical licences · Most discussions of licensing in software ...

12 things to consider when assessing open source software

Ensuring license compliance is vital to maintain the open and collaborative nature of open source projects. This involves monitoring and ...

Which of the following scenarios relating to open source software ...

In these two scenarios, the developers are not complying with the open-source licenses. In the first scenario, the developer is not providing ...

Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software

... development. It will also explore important issues that affect the ethical ... License (GPL) version 2 (v2) and the current draft of the GPL version 3 ...

(PDF) Ethical issues in open source software - ResearchGate

We argue that it is difficult to pass off low quality open source software as high quality software and that the Open Source development model offers strong ...

Open Source Software Licensing Steve H. Lee 1

at most a 'moral' – but not a legal – obligation to abide by the terms of open source licenses, see Lash, Making Money, supra note 116; Lash, Source Code for ...

An approach to Open-Source Software License Management using ...

Given the availability of source code for open source software, it is difficult to scrutinize adherence of licenses and more often than not it ...

Ethical Considerations when Choosing an Open Source ...

... license. Read the original article on Software Sustainability Institute's Blog page: Ethical Considerations for Your Open Source Governance. Ethical ...

Open Source Software FAQ - DoD CIO - Department of Defense

Q: Can the government release software under an open source license if it was developed by contractors under government contract? Q: Is there a ...

What are the ethical considerations for open source developers?

The license dictates how the software can be used, modified, and distributed by others. There are various types of open source licenses, each ...

Ethics Enforcement Via Software Licenses Considered Harmful.

There's been a lot of talk recently about creating software licenses that include an ethical-use-only clause. Here's one example among many.

The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source - Coraline Ada Ehmke

Open source software today is increasingly playing a critical role in mass surveillance, anti-immigrant violence, protester suppression, racist policing.

Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess

Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift ...

FLOSS Business & Ethics: Part 1 - Definitions and context

I've spent a couple of months reading all sorts of articles and news about Free Software, Open-Source, licensing and more importantly the…

As a software engineer, is it ethical to use open-source ... - Quora

Open source software would be software with an open source license. Each particular license tells you what you are allowed to do with the ...

Computer Ethics - Software licenses and Open Source Software ...

Computer Ethics – Software licenses and Open Source Software Movement. · FSF -Free Software Foundation. · GNU's full form is GNU's not UNIX. · OSI ...

CC0 - Creative Commons

CC0 is a universal instrument that is not adapted to the laws of any particular legal jurisdiction, similar to many open source software licenses. And while ...

The rise of the Server Side Public License (SSPL)

Basically, it's a hostile proprietary license masquerading in open source clothing. There is a Hacker News thread on this here. It will be ...