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Karen Sandler (o0karen0o@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 17-Dec-2020 18:16:11 UTC Karen Sandler

I've been thinking a lot over the past year about the problems that the #ethicallicense movement is seeking to address. Here's a simple proposal for another possible legal mechanism, creating ethical employment contract provisions! #contractpatch
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/dec/17/ethical-contract-patch/
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1. Ethical Employment Contracts Instead of Ethical Licenses?
  
  Earlier in the year at Copyleft Conf, we had a few sessions dedicated to the Ethical License movement. During the conference, Coraline Ada Ehmke gave a moving talk outlining why technologists and software freedom activists in particular must act against atrocities, especially those committed using FOSS. I have long argued that technologists (and especially software freedom activists) should dedicate more care and resources to the ethical use of technology and eliminating discrimination and oppression that technology often enables. While I don't believe software licenses are the best way to accomplish this task, I've wondered since the conference what FOSS contributors can do to protect human rights.
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.

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