On Tuesday 25 February 2020 16:43, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Eric Schultz <e...@wwahammy.com>: > > I would argue that controlling your computing IS a social justice issue. > > While I do not require anyone else to share my opinion on this, my past > experience is that people who use "social justice issue" in this way > are enemies of liberty, intent (among other things) on enforcing the > suppression of disfavored speech and of unequal legal privileges for > favored identity groups. > > What is certain is that "social justice", even if one views the term > in a positive light, is *not OSI's job.* Our responsibility is to > protect a narrow and particular set of liberties, not to fix society.
I am one of those who fully agree with Eric Raymond on this. Social justice clauses /Does Not/ belong in licenses, in any form. Adding such clauses makes any software using such a license, proprietary software. . -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, https://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0x4F5AD64DFA687324
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