It would seem to me that a pressure campaign to extend existing OS licenses to include a BDS license has the potential to see adoption among the more progressive tech-bros and at least significantly inconvenience tech firms in occupied Palestine. I did some (admittedly very spotty) research and couldn't find anything.
IANAL, and I'm also not a lawyer, so I won't try to model language, but I'm kinda surprised that I couldn't find a pre-existing example.
You would have to have a software project big enough that Israeli companies would want to use it and US companies would want to contribute to it, for it to matter at all. And they're not going to do that. Maybe the Free Software Foundation would allow something like that but I dunno. Pretty much unenforceable too. But I suppose you could make a license that you ban for use by "government security organs" or something. I think I've seen something like that before.
It's the easier political fight to win, but I personally feel like losing the fight on BDS might be a more productive action, because it would open a door to certain radical politics in tech world.
yeah good point. kinda pointless if it isn't calling stuff out by name otherwise techbros will just think you're talking about big bad evil China 😂