I wrote, but never published [1], a variation on the MIT license that has specific clauses stating that the software can only be used by parties who dont own/manufacture/trade firearms or ballistics. I never published it because I am not a lawyer, and it probably would have come across as an elaborate troll. If anyone is interested, I'll release it.
It's your license, but owning firearms somehow makes you violent? Certainly sounds like an elaborate troll to me.
Even if you could somehow iron out the kinks, the end result of your sort of action is a host of additional licenses that bar the various bête noires of their various authors, eventually leading to code that simply can't be used together because of conflicting moral obligations. I really don't want to have to run a program just to sort out the ethical dependencies of the stuff in my Gemfile.
You might be interested to note that the world's largest R&D firm [1] has a charter where they can't research offensive weaponry, but can research "dual-use" technology. e.g. if you can develop techniques to turn a cancer drug into an aerosol for oral delivery, you can use the same technique to turn a mildly infectious contagion into a bio-weapon.
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I wrote, but never published [1], a variation on the MIT license that has specific clauses stating that the software can only be used by parties who dont own/manufacture/trade firearms or ballistics. I never published it because I am not a lawyer, and it probably would have come across as an elaborate troll. If anyone is interested, I'll release it.
[1] https://github.com/binarymax/Non-violent-License
It's your license, but owning firearms somehow makes you violent? Certainly sounds like an elaborate troll to me.
Even if you could somehow iron out the kinks, the end result of your sort of action is a host of additional licenses that bar the various bête noires of their various authors, eventually leading to code that simply can't be used together because of conflicting moral obligations. I really don't want to have to run a program just to sort out the ethical dependencies of the stuff in my Gemfile.
Yes, all those points and more :)
While I don't consider everyone who owns a firearm to be violent - firearms are instruments of violence.
You might be interested to note that the world's largest R&D firm [1] has a charter where they can't research offensive weaponry, but can research "dual-use" technology. e.g. if you can develop techniques to turn a cancer drug into an aerosol for oral delivery, you can use the same technique to turn a mildly infectious contagion into a bio-weapon.
1 - http://www.battelle.org/
What about hunters and police officers and security guards and sport shooters?