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clarify section 5.5
realpixelcode Jul 25, 2022
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clarify section 5.5 in LICENSE.md
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re-add "and" to section 5.5
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re-add "and" to section 5.5
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7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions LICENSE.md
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Expand Up @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ conditions:
4. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse
or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission; and

5. This software must not be used by any organisation, website, product, or service that:
5. This software must not be used by any person, organisation or other legal entity, or any website, product or service that:
1. promotes, lobbies for or derives a majority of income from:
1. **abuses of human rights**:
* human trafficking
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* access to the rights set out in the [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](./documents/UDHR.md) and the [Convention on the Rights of the Child](./documents/CRC.md)
* democratic processes
* peaceful assembly and association (including worker associations)
* a sustainable environment
; and
* a sustainable environment; and

5. If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative
6. If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative
Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained
within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the
Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text file
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4. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse
or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission; and

5. This software must not be used by any organisation, website, product, or service that:
1. promotes, lobbies for or derives a majority of income from:
5. This software must not be used by any person, organisation or other legal entity, or any website, product or service that:
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1. commits, promotes, lobbies for or derives a majority of income from:
1. **abuses of human rights**:
* human trafficking
* sex trafficking
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* tobacco
* products that encourage adversely addictive behaviours

2. dissuades, lobbies against, or derives a majority of income from actions that discourage or frustrate:
2. dissuades, lobbies against, or commits or derives a majority of income from actions that discourage or frustrate:

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This is quite a broadening of the scope of the license. We added the derives a majority of income from actions... as a reasonable test here to represent the organisation's primary activity. "Commits" would make this much more binary and would make this license less attractive for widespread adoption. For example if an organisation "commits an action that discourages or frustrates a sustainable environment" that could on an extreme interpretation prevent a property developer using this software because they must level land and chop down trees for housing.

This is designed to catch say a power company who uses its might to lobby against curtailment of fossil fuels, or an oil company lobbying politicians for rebates to keep oil extraction alive.

I don't think we can accept this change.

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How about replacing commits with systematically and regularly commits?

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Yep – this suggestion is good, then I'm happy to merge this.

* peace
* access to the rights set out in the [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](./documents/UDHR.md) and the [Convention on the Rights of the Child](./documents/CRC.md)
* peaceful assembly and association (including worker associations)
* a sustainable environment
* democratic processes

; and
* democratic processes; and

6. If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative
Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained
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