Healthy open source communities don’t just form around code, but also around shared values and a vision for how their work can improve the world. The true measure of the success of open source is its impact— how the technologies we develop are leveraged to bring about positive social, cultural, and political change.
I went through and built a license, then read through it.
I don’t think most of the things contained would be legally enforceable. We barely even have traditional open licensing that works, much less one that tries to enforce an ethical framework. Instead of this, we should work toward wide-reaching law that protects people’s rights, something that has teeth. Asking people to please not enslave someone with your library will never work, they will do it anyway or just not use your library, as they already do with copyleft licenses.
… or use them anyway because if they actually don’t care for human rights, will they really care for licenses or licensing law in other countries?
Even then I think establishing intent is worth something.
And it may be different for some of the “lesser evil” modules of the license.
I think that’s still worth something. Not being a part of it, even indirectly is worth something. Not enabling them.