Hi Sole, I personally support climate change actions very much and I am convinced climate change is the number 1 challenge of our time. In an attempt to act in a consistent way with that belief, I declined several times to keynote at conferences either organized by the fossil fuel industry or to conferences that would have required me to fly a long distance to give a presentation.
However, I don't think software licensing is a right tool to advance this cause. How would we enforce it? What would happen if we don't enforce it? Who is "we", especially when our library is embedded in 3-rd party software product and the end-users are not necessarily aware of all the upstream dependencies? What about gray-cases, e.g. a company that does not fossil directly extraction per-se but works as a consultancy with a majority of customers in the fossil fuel extraction industry? What if a significant part of their consultancy is to help them detect methane leaks in satellite data? How would we audit this? With which resources? How would we get a consensual decision on those gray cases? What about the hypocrisy of using or contributing to software under that license while regularly using fossil fuel powered transportation or in a working or leaving building heated with fossil fuels? Or buying goods transported this way over long distances? Instead, I would rather encourage everyone to vote for legislators and governments that progressively set bans on the development and commercialization of fossil fuel based technologies and to voice your support for such legislations in public debates. I encourage everybody to look twice before accepting to work for a company involved in fossil fuel extraction one way or another or involved in fossil-fuel intensive activities. -- Olivier _______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn