Re: [Fsuk-manchester] HPL

[Tim Dobson]

On 21/05/10 23:03, Dave Page wrote:
> On Friday 21 May 2010 22:22:23 Luke Taylor wrote:
> 
>> Essentially it is BSD but with the clause that you may not use the software
>> to harm animals or humans. (Surely this restriction makes the software
>> non-free?)
> 
> It amuses me that PETA hasn't realised that humans *are* animals.
> 
> This is clearly a non-free software license since it's in direct violation of 
> freedom 0 (the freedom to run the software for any purpose)...

Hacktivismo put out a similar licence which had ethical implications
several years ago.

It explicitly stated that use to prohibited for violations of human
rights, and introduction of features that spy on the user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivismo_Enhanced-Source_Software_License_Agreement

here's the FSF response to it:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html

It seems a very hit & miss way to campaign about animal rights to be
honest. Creating a program and then hoping they'll use it so you can
beat them around the head with the licence... is an utterly silly idea.
Hoping that you'll create *that* program that people who abuse animals
*need* to use is also an ineffective idea - they just won't use your
program.

I can't see why they bothered to be honest, except perhaps to provide
entertainment for the free software community...

*sues PETA-program-developers for stress-based cruelty derived from them
creating a silly licence*

Tim