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Published: 2013. When someone new to open source does a web search for "open source licenses", the first page that comes up ((other than an ad for opensource.com,…

Published: 2013. Since it has been roughly one year since Mozilla nominated me to sit on the OSI board, I thought I'd recap what I've done over the course of the year.

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Source text for the Komorebi license. Contribute to LGUG2Z/komorebi-license development by creating an account on GitHub.

There are two points of popular open source mythology this post will share my experience with: People won't use your project if you don't use an Open Source Initiative-approved license People won't contribute to to your project if you don't use an Open Source Initiative-approved license Many people have ideas about how society should be like and what must be done to change institutions and to work for a revolution. But this is not enough. Often these ideas do not conform to reality and if they do conform to reality there is only one way to test them: Try to put them to work and see if they succeed. Testing our ideas in concrete work is the only way we will ever know if they are correct. -- James Forman - Twenty Enemies (1971) I maintain a tiling window manager for Windows called komorebi which is made available under the Komorebi License. The Komorebi License is both an educational source license which ensures the availability of source code to individuals for personal use, modifi…

You're likely here because you've discovered that I generally refuse to use open source licenses for my popular software projects, and you want to engage me in a discussion. Here is a list of things I consider before accepting an invitation from someone to engage in a discussion about why I do not use open source software licenses. Skin in the game - if you have not created, released, and maintained publicly developed software with a user base of a non-trivial size (10k+ users), you're better off discussing software licensing in the abstract with others whose only hands-on experience is discussing software licensing in the abstract Acknowledgment of open source licensing's genocide problem Proposals to address open source licensing's genocide problem - if you do not consider open source licensing's genocide problem to be a issue, then we don't have any common ground for discussion

Developers are protesting after revelations that the source-code repository GitHub contracted with ICE. But if you restrict access to open-source code, is it still open?

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The Hippocratic License (HL3) is an ethical source license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to violate universal standards of human rights.