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.

  • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    But I suppose you could make a license that you ban for use by “government security organs” or something.

    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.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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 😂