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Do No Harm software license - A licence for using software for good
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Please stop using the term "open source" #64

Closed BjarniRunar closed 5 years ago

BjarniRunar commented 5 years ago

First of all: I understand your goals and support them. People who want to write ethical software should have tools and frameworks to support them in doing so.

However, what you are doing is incompatible with Open Source and Free Software, both the ethos and the legalities. You're trying to solve a different problem and I wish you the best of luck, but legalities and licensing are already confusing enough without muddying the waters this way. So you really shouldn't be using the term Open Source in your documentation, except as a reference where you make it clear how what you are doing differs.

Maybe talk about community software, or DIY, or shared source...? There are a bunch of other terms that will get your point across, I think?

Thanks! :smiley:

BjarniRunar commented 5 years ago

Sorry, I see this has already been raised and is being worked on in #27 - closing. Good luck!