50
The Hippocratic License 3.0: An Ethical License for Open Source.
(firstdonoharm.dev)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
50 points (81.2% liked)
Programming
21400 readers
53 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The term "open source software" was coined specifically to refer to software licensing that recognizes a particular set of freedoms. It is not a generic term for source-available software, and never was.
One of the freedoms of open source is "no discrimination against fields of endeavor."
Calling the Hippocratic license family "open source" is inaccurate, since its entire goal is to discriminate against certain fields of endeavor.
It's better described as a sort of source-available license.
You’re quoting the source, but aren’t differentiating between open source and free?
C’mon, person. That was a lousy attempt at sounding smart.
Literally the first sentence on the linked page.