On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:28 PM Coraline Ada Ehmke <coral...@idolhands.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 8, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Chris Travers <ch...@metatrontech.com> wrote: > > > > To clarify I think that any license which demands deference to one > > side of a controversial social or political line over another to never > > be considered OSI approved. I think that's far more intrusive than > > restrictions on how a piece of software may be used. > > Can you provide an example of an ethical source license that is based on a > controversial social or political line?
Human rights as we understand them are products of a cultural frame of reference. We cannot know what the limits of free speech, bodily autonomy, etc, are without such cultural lines. There's no reason to think that all the signatories of the UDHR for example meant the same thing by each of their understandings. If someone from China uses this license and publishes a statement indicating that the rights are to be interpreted as the CHinese government interprets them, is that valid? Or is it not? > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org