Hi Sole, I personally believe that global warming is the most important threat to our well-being, together with the rise of fascism.
However, legal matters are seldom easy (IANAL). It is unclear that those licenses are enforceable. See for instance the discussion from Bruce Perens, who has a huge amount of experience in open source licensing: https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licenses/ (credit to Andy Mueller for digging up this reference). The more common a software license is, the more likely a team is to hold in court, and the less likely a team is to have legal fees to cover (which would kill us, as a project). Best, Gaël On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:06:58AM +0000, Sole Galli via scikit-learn wrote: > Hello Scikit-learn team, > I've come across this: > https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1277136696568508418?s=12 > Basically, it is an initiative to include in software license a prohibition of > use by fossil fuel extractivist companies. > I would like to know your views on this? Is this something that you would pick > up from Scikit-learn? > Are there some legal concerns to be aware of? or anything else that should be > considered? > Because it sounds quite powerful and straightforward to me. > I would be really keen to hear from you. > Thanks a lot > Sole > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > scikit-learn@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn -- Gael Varoquaux Research Director, INRIA Visiting professor, McGill http://gael-varoquaux.info http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux _______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
