Hi Andrew, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that Free Software was developed based upon a particular moral and ethical point of view. I also think you are correct that the moral foundations of FOSS text to attract many people with strong moral convictions.
That said, there is an essential difference between moral/ethical views that are *necessarily congruent* with FOSS and those that are not. There may be a way to incorporate other moral views into a license, and it is acceptable to propose ideas regarding how that may be done. However, it is unclear whether any effort to do so can work, even in theory. FOSS, and the OSD in particular, have strong non-discrimination language at their core. Many ethical licensing schemes are at their core an effort to discriminate. Thanks, Van __________________________ Van Lindberg van.lindb...@gmail.com m: 214.364.7985
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