@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de @davidak @MagicLike@mstdn.social @codeberg@mastodon.technology The bigger problem with "ethical licenses" (or anything that restricts usage context) is that it fundamentally kills the concept of a public commons; because everybody has slightly different definitions of 'ethical', you would see a proliferation of licenses that all disallow *subtly* different things, eventually leading to a patchwork of prohibitions.

Which essentially means that with every level in the dependency tree, you further approximate the point of "literally nobody can use the resulting software because everybody is disallowed from using it by *some* component of it".

This is obviously not sustainable. And that's not even going into how the license is entirely the wrong place to be enforcing ethical standards...