Move to NoHarm license

[tbredin]

After some discussion we'd like to put up the idea to move this project to a NoHarm license.
I assume this probably affects noone here but will leave up for a while before we swap in case anyone has suggestions around the best way to do so?

https://github.com/raisely/NoHarm

[danlaush]

I do think we should know, as a company, who and how should we respond if we do encounter a breach in the license/terms of use. Otherwise it's just words.

[danlaush]

Likes who decides if it's been breached, who gets final say, that sort of thing.

[glennphilp]

I am a little late to respond to this thread.

The main question is who decides what is:

• violence, hate and division,
• environmental destruction,
• abuse of human rights,
• the destruction of people’s physical and mental health

The reasoning for this question is someones freedom of speech can easily be miss interpreted. It is also possible that people have a difference of opinion.

For instance, @tbredin you might have one viewpoint about a topic and another developer might have a different viewpoint. If they use your open source code, will you force them to stop using your code based on the difference of opinion? It would be very easy for one view to say they are causing harm or creating destruction.

An exaggerated point, an open-source developer might believe that people which drive SUVs are bad and destroying mother earth. While the SUV driver believes the Prius driving developer is over dramatic and causing economic harm. Neither one has a more accurate viewpoint. They are both a difference of opinion. Yet, they both could be claimed under the environmental destruction clause.

Does anyone understand where I am going with this? Does it make any sense? I am concerned a license such open-ended could be miss used simply based on the difference of opinion, not actual harm.