Open Nolski opened 3 years ago
Thank you for that read, it was very persuasive. I agree that use of the Peace Public License should ideally not encourage liberal pacification but might do so in the current form. I would not like to remove the third and fourth restrictions entirely, as I do want to remove the capacity for violent or militaristic acts. Do you have any ideas on how we can reword the definitions to make it less pacificating?
Hi! I recently encountered this license and wanted to share some thoughts on the following definitions:
And clauses:
I think that this invalidates the objective of this license to "protect the basic rights of human beings from exploitation" as these restrictions do not remove the violence done upon oppressed people but rather obfuscates it into more structural and systemic violence. Meanwhile, many oppressed people will be forced into fighting for any chance of freeing themselves from exploitation but under this license will be classified as against the objective of this license under the definition and clauses provided. I think this paper on liberal pacification puts it much better than I ever could have and would recommend giving it a read if you have the time https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/63/1/199/5363835#186471603
Regardless, I know this is just a software license but would just like to share this as we try to codify our ethics into a legal framework.
Happy hacking!