Ethical source movement, or how to try to fight the evil corporation to use your code

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Can you stop your open-source project from being used for evil? - Stack Overflow Blog

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David Gray Widder is a PhD Student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, and has studied challenges software engineers face related to trust and ethics in AI at NASA, Microsoft Research, and Intel Labs. You can follow his work or share what you thought about this article on Twitter at @davidthewid.https://twitter.com/davidthewid

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The Ethical Source Movement seeks to use software licenses and other tools to give developers the freedom and agency to ensure that our work is being used for social good and in service of human rights. This view emphasizes the rights of developers to have a say in what the fruits of their labor are used for over the rights of any user to use the software for anything. There are a myriad of different licenses: some prohibit software from being used by companies that overwork developers in violation of labor laws, while others prohibit uses that violate human rights or help extract fossil fuels...

I cannot say more without copy pasting the article which would be wrong.

Free and open-source software licenses remove your ability to control what others do with your code. Thats kind of the point. Its also why theyre so popular: anyone can use, remix, and sell your code into new technological possibilities with little restriction! What could go wrong?

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