Re: Adding ethical constraints to MPL

2019-10-09 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez via governance
On 10/8/19 7:11 AM, Jared Hirsch via governance wrote: Hi all, I'd like to suggest that we develop an MPL 2.0 variant that includes a clause restricting the applications of open sourced work to uses that are non-violent and respect human rights. I'm inspired to make this suggestion by a project

Re: Adding ethical constraints to MPL

2019-10-09 Thread Tom Ritter via governance
While I'm sympathetic to the goal; this has been tried and it did not work. OCB was licensed in a way made it free but that prevented military use: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm This had the effect of nobody implementing or using it - despite it being a very nice cryptogra

Re: Adding ethical constraints to MPL

2019-10-09 Thread Jared Hirsch via governance
Thanks for the feedback, all! This was exactly the sort of input I was hoping to solicit. The OCB example is a really good one. I'm fine to drop this proposal. Cheers, Jared On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:58 AM Tom Ritter via governance < governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > While I'm sympathet