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Specify ethical constraints on community clause #21

Open jaredhirsch opened 4 years ago

jaredhirsch commented 4 years ago

Hi! I'm excited by the work you're doing to bring ethics and open source together.

Looking at the third clause in the ethical source definition:

  1. Its community is governed by a code of conduct that is consistently and fairly enforced.

This doesn't capture the idea that the code of conduct itself should be ethical.

I don't know how to change the wording to capture the idea that a no-op code of conduct doesn't make a community 'ethical'. One simple approach might be to refer directly to the contributor covenant here?

CoralineAda commented 4 years ago

I don't want to mention CC, because there are lots of orgs that have worked with professionals in this space to craft codes of conduct for their communities. But I like your point about clarifying that no-op CoCs don't count. Let's brainstorm the word.

jaredhirsch commented 4 years ago

Yeah, you make a good point.

I am tempted to use a word like "non-violent" to try to capture the sense that any meaningful CoC will affirm some basic right to participation without harassment or violence, but wish I could think of a more positive word.