Hippocratic License

The organizations esr and rms founded don't know what FOSS is; we do!

The Hippocratic License (HL3) is a SJW's wet dream: It explicitly allows the maintainer of a HL3-licensed work to deny rights to those who don't comfort to the globalist, egalitarian, Leftist mindset. Prior to this license's advent, SJW's could only kick Rightists out of converged projects; they couldn't stop Rightists from continuing to use or forking open source software and launching their own (new and improved) projects and websites afterwards. Thus, SJW's needed to devise a way to not only deny project participation to Rightists but to also deny open source software to them, a task Coraline Ada Ehmke took upon her own shoulders to fulfill (you might recognize Ehmke as the same person who wrote the Contributor Covenant that's used as the basis of nearly every code of conduct you find on M$ Github and beyond).

“	Assuming a licensee has violated the terms of a license and requests to cease and desist have failed, a licensor can file a lawsuit against a licensee. The primary remedy available to licensors is an injunction. An injunction is a court order that either prohibits a party to a lawsuit from taking a certain action or compels a party to take an action. In the case of software license enforcement litigation, a court would prohibit a licensee from continuing to use the software.	„
—Per their own FAQ's, SJW's intend to sue Rightists into the Amish lifestyle

Ehmke vs. Hippocrates

Ehmke claims that the license is based on the Hippocratic Oath, yet there are some notable differences between the license and the Oath. The Hippocratic Oath involves searing before a higher power–eternal, timeless, and capable of judging man beyond their earthly existence. The HL3, on the other hand, deems the man-made, fallible, ever-changing United Nations to be the source of all moral norms that the Licensee must adhere to. In addition, adhering to the license is essentially a pact between Licensee and Licensor instead of man and god.

Trojan license strategy

1. Convince naive, moralfag-leaning project lead into adopting the viral variant of the license–the Hippocratic License with the Copyleft module (HL3-CL), the most dangerous variant of the HL3, since it obliges derivative software projects and forks into using the same license.
2. Have your SJW friends infiltrate and converge the project.
3. Find an excuse to call the project lead a racist or one of the many -phobes and launch a coup against him or her.
4. Replace all the productive developers with virtue-signalling bureaucrats who send their time tweeting and speaking at conventions instead of actually developing.
5. If the old project lead tries to start a new project based on the code he or she once developed, make legal threats and start a trial-by-media campaign. If trial-by-media doesn't work, sue him or she and guilt-trip an attorney into working pro bono for you.

Rejected by the sane

The Free Software Foundation roundly rejected the license:

This license is the latest addition to our license list, but unfortunately, it falls in the nonfree category. It restricts uses of the software that actively and knowingly endanger, harm, or otherwise threaten the physical, mental, economic, or general well-being of individuals or groups in violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While avoiding harm like this is of vital importance, a copyright license isn't necessarily the correct tool for achieving it. A restriction like this on Freedom 0 (the freedom to run the program for any purpose) may be difficult to enforce, as well as for users to understand, and may cause unintended consequences that could worsen the same problems it aims to solve.

The FSF previously rejected the HESSLA and the JSON License on similar grounds.

Vox Day (talking about something else, but it fits here nicely):

Academic SJWs at Stanford are alarmed to discover that when individuals are deplatformed from mainstream platforms, they build their own platforms and become even stronger. Naturally, their response to this is not to conclude that individuals should not be deplatformed, but rather that the platforms should be themselves deplatformed.

See also

• Persona Non Grata Preamble and Dual Licensing for Justice

External links

• The license's very own website
• Users of the license; software you should avoid
• It's FOSS article
• ZDNet article

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