Blog Posts

• “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

In the Press

• The Schism at the Heart of the Open-Source Movement
• 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)
• Ethical Open Source: Is the world ready?
• Open source et Défense : les liaisons dangereuses sur fond d’éthique (Lemonde Informatique)
• An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm (WIRED)
• The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (BoingBoing)
• The military-industrial complex cannot get enough of open source (Computerworld)
• Should Open Source Require ‘Freedom At All Costs’? (The New Stack)
• Can a modified MIT ‘Hippocratic License’ to restrict misuse of open source software prompt a wave of ethical innovation in tech? (Packt)
• Ethical Open Source Licence dilemma (Open UK)
• The Great Open Source Divide: ICE, Hippocratic License and the Controversy (It’s FOSS)
• You can’t open-source license morality (ZDNet)

Related Efforts

• Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) Ethical IP licencing. An overview of IP-related tools for tech workers who care about human rights.
• 966.ICU. An open source software license that advocates workers’ rights.
• Do No Harm License. A license for developers who write open source code to make the world a better place.
• inno3. A trademark-based contract for OSS maintainers.