Ethical Source in the Media

In the Press

• The open-source Contributor Covenant is now managed by the Organization for Ethical Source (Tech Crunch, May 27 2021)
• Open source software: freedom from ethics? (Engineering & Technology, April 20 2021)
• Why (Almost) Everyone Wants Richard Stallman Cancelled (The New Stack, April 13 2021)
• Free Software Can’t Exist without Richard Stallman? (The New Stack, March 26 2021)
• Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies. (The Register, March 23 2021)
• Regouverner: la nouvelle ère des licences libres. (internetactu.net, 17 Feb 2021)
• Can Software Handle Ethics?. (Looks Like New on KGNU Public Radio, Jan 28 2021)
• The Rules of Open Source No Longer Apply. (BuiltIn, Oct 16 2020)
• The Social Responsibility of Software Developers, Part 2: Software Freedom vs Human Freedom. (LeadDev, Oct 9 2020)
• Open Source Governance, Meet Feminist Economics (BultIn, September 14 2020)
• The Social Responsibility of Software Developers, Part 1: The Parable of the Locksmith (LeadDev, September 24 2020)
• Is Your Open Source Code Fueling Human Rights Abuses? (BuiltIn, Sept 1 2020)
• Open Source License Issues Stymie Enterprise Contributions (Search ITOperations, Jul 7 2020)
• The Culture War in Open Source is On (Model View Culture, Apr 15 2020)
• Ethical Open Source: A Six-Month Retrospective (Model View Culture, April 16 2020)
• Open Source Angriff von zwei Seiten (“Open Source Attacked from Two Sides”) (Golem.de) English translation
• Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source (Computer Weekly)
• The Schism at the Heart of the Open-Source Movement (The Atlantic, Jan 3 2020)
• Software freedom vs human freedom: A surge of activism is rocking open source developers, as programmers fight to stop their software from being used for ‘evil’ (Business Insider, Dec 1 2019)
• Ethical Open Source: Is the world ready? (Canadian Lawyer, Oct 15 2019)
• Open source et Défense : les liaisons dangereuses sur fond d’éthique (Lemonde Informatique, Oct 6 2019)
• An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm (WIRED, Oct 4 2019)
• The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (BoingBoing, Oct 4 2020)
• The military-industrial complex cannot get enough of open source (Computerworld)
• Should Open Source Require ‘Freedom At All Costs’? (The New Stack, Sep 27 2019)
• Can a modified MIT ‘Hippocratic License’ to restrict misuse of open source software prompt a wave of ethical innovation in tech? (Packt, Sep 24 2019)
• Ethical Open Source Licence dilemma (Open UK)
• The Great Open Source Divide: ICE, Hippocratic License and the Controversy (It’s FOSS, Sep 24 2019)
• You can’t open-source license morality (ZDNet, Sep 24 2019)

Conference Talks and Panel Discussions

• Introducing the Open Social Compact, Metagovernance Seminar (November 30, 2022)
• Will Behave For Code: How Ethical Software Licensing Can Combat Human Rights Abuses by Corporations, RightsCon 2022 (June 8, 2022)
• Emerging Trends in Open Creative Commons 2021 Global Summit panel discussion (September 24 2021)
• The Future of Open Source, a panel series in collaboration with the UCLA Institute for Technology Law and Practice and Corporate Accountability Lab (October 18 2021)
• The Social Responsibility of Software Engineers by Coraline Ada Ehmke (Keynote, Cloud Foundry Summit, July 21 2021)
• Beyond Code: Centering People in Open Source by Tobie Langel and Coraline Ada Ehmke (Open Source Lisbon, June 18 2021)
• Workshop on Ethical Open Source by Coraline Ada Ehmke (Colorado Research Center for Democracy & Technology, February 22 2021)
• Ethical Source, Strong Copyleft, and Open Software Business Models
• The Ethics of Open Source: A Critical Reflection by Don Goodman-Wilson (FOSDEM, February 2 2020)
• Bringing Back Ethics to Open Source by Tobie Langel (FOSDEM, February 2 2020)
• The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source by Coraline Ada Ehmke (CopyleftConf, February 3 2020)

Podcasts

• Ethics in Open Source
• “Coraline Ada Ehmke on Ethical Source”, Creative Commons Open Minds 20th Anniversary Podcast
• “Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes”, Greater Than Code
• “The Ethical Open Source Movement”, Greater Than Code
• “Creating a Support Network for Maintainers”, Sustain
• “Ethical Open Source”, Greater Than Code

Blog Posts

• Open Source as a Force for Good
• Thoughts by Coraline Ada Ehmke on the Ethical Source Movement in the 2020 OSI Board Elections
• The Top 10 Open Source Legal Issues of 2019
• “Ethical Source at WeTransfer”
• “Do We Need to Rethink What Free Software Is?”
• ”#wontfix: endorsements can’t fix the Open Source Definition”
• Six Myths about “ethical” open source licenses
• Open Source is Broken
• Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
• Ethical Licensing Talking Points