AI and the Dangerous Fiction of ‘All Lawful Use’
Dunstan Allison-Hope and Iain Levine argue that human rights commitments are essential for all companies selling their products to governments worldwide.
freedom 'for users'- which users did you mean, exactly? (or, of users, user-deployers, and user-consumers)
Published: 2007. "Free software...
Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Introducing the Permissive License Stack
We believe open-source values are critical to free societies, especially in the digital age. To that end, we’ve created a new approach to licensing invoking the principles of the Default Open Pledge
Cryptographic Autonomy License
1. Purpose This License gives You unlimited permission to use and modify the software to which it applies (the “Work”), either as-is or in modified form, for Your private purposes, while protecting…
Lawful-access bill could threaten encryption, deter investment, Chamber of Commerce warns
Bill would require telecoms, internet companies to change systems to give surveillance, monitoring capabilities to authorities
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
Understanding the Cryptographic Autonomy License
Why crypto software licenses need to protect user’s control of their keys.
Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are …
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
I put things here so they are on the internet
Are we human?
Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says
Good and not Evil: the Advent of Ethos Licensing
For years, my clients have asked me what to do about the “Good not Evil” license, which is most famously applied to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), a widely used format for storing a…
