The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source
summary
Argues that the open source license freedom-to-do-anything norm makes projects complicit in abuses and insists on community action not platitudes. Points to concrete harms: 40,000 in ICE custody, hundreds of documented deaths, and corporate use like 200 Palantir projects on GitHub. Presents concrete responses: an ethical licensing experiment—the Hippocratic License—an organization and updated principles, and a call to organize, change policies, or leave jobs when work clearly enables human rights violations.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:11Coraline Ada Ehmke and work
- 7:44Locksmith parable and ethics
- 11:39Ethics in computer science history
- 17:56Technology complicity in rights abuses
- 20:33Open source and ICE/Palantir
- 23:25Call to Ruby community
- 24:48Founding ethical source movement
- 26:13Ethics in academia
- 28:20Resources on ethical source
- 29:25Open source communities evolution
- 34:06Closing remarks
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