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What you are looking for already exists. The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA) is a license that implements certain restrictions on software use, based on the universal declaration of human rights.

However, because of these additional restrictions, it cannot be considered to be a free software license in the strict sense even though it shares many similarities. It is unlikely that the FSF/RMS will ever create a similar license, as they criticized the HESSLA for beeing ineffectice (as others have mentioned, governments and the "defense industry" will simply ignore the restrictions) while harming the free software movement due to incompatibilities with other licenses.

If you really want to do something against oppressive, war-mongering governments, trying to make use of the law controlled by the same people is hardly going to be effective. Instead, it would be more beneficial if we focused our efforts on a technical level where we can actually make a difference, e.g. by making surveillance harder by using secure, standardized protocols.

Some of the things you refer to as tinfoil hat theories are established historical fact. To whit, the Bush family (George H. Bush's father) DID have strong business ties to the Nazi party.

While there is no direct evidence one way or the other regarding the various 9/11 conspiracies, there is strong circumstantial evidence that the official story of the 9/11 events is false. Evidence WAS concealed and destroyed. Dick Cheney DID write, in the 1990s, that the USA needed a 'New Pearl Harbour' in order to galvanize public opinion to support an invasion of Iraq. The routine air-defense response was caused to stand down. The Bush adminitration DID receive direct and specific warnings (from the intelligence services of Japan, Australia, possibly others) in advance that Al Queda operatives were going to attempt to hijack airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center in the week of 9/10/2001 - 9/17/2001, and either did nothing or obfuscated investigations. Conspiracy by Dick Cheney to allow the 9/11 attacks to proceed seems to be the simplest explanation that fits the facts. Had this author been in Dick Cheney's shoes that day then this author might well have allowed the attacks to proceed, too, given the major political advantage that would result. Does any of that prove a conspiracy to allow the 9/11 attacks to proceed? No, it proves NOTHING. However, there is enough circumstantial evidence that there might have been a conspiracy that it is not appropriate to immediately conclude these are wild tinfoil hat theories.

Keep in mind, the historical record contains MANY instances of REAL conspiracies of the same order of magnitude. For example, Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods[Wikipedia] ,

which bears a striking resemblance to the 'Bush Knew about 9/11' conspiracy theory, was seriously proposed to JFK, who was horrified at the prospect, rejected it, and was then assassinated.

You might be confused by the very successful disinformation campaigns that are frequently used to discredit investigation of legitimate theories. For example, after the 9/11 attacks there were (blatantly false, not fact based) claims that the Pentagon was not struck by a passenger airline. Numerous other blatantly false and preposterous theories were promulgated. This disinformation had the effect of discrediting more reasonable, fact-based inquiries. One of the best ways to discredit legitimate investigation into a possible conspiracy is to advocate obvious tinfoil hat ideas, causing the press and the public (which has a short attention span and is not good at understanding complex situations) to conflate the obviously-false with the possibly-true.

Personally, this author tends to reserve judgement on 'conspiracy theories', unless there is an overwhelming preponderance of evidence. It is very hard to separate the disinformation from the misinformation from the truth. There are many historical examples of REAL conspiracies, and many historical examples of utterly whacky conspiracy theories that large groups of people believe are true. The 'birther consipracy' smacks or of racism, requires inordinate complexity, and has no supporting facts, so I reject it. This author tends to use Occam's Razor as a primary determinant about whether a conspiracy is probably true or false. One day this author might reveal some background on the (known to be real because I was there and sank my life's fortune into it) conspiracy surrounding the formation of Wikileaks, and the links between Joseph and Valerie Plame-Wilson and how Julian Assange was chosen for the job. Hint: Valerie Plame-Wilson stayed at my house in 2004, where she had long conversations with the author of this document.

My personal favorite known-to-be-true-long-after-the-fact conspiracy theory (actually

It's rather silly to discuss legislative limits to technology transfer at this late date. It is already mostly done. The big Western tech companies have already sold what they had to sell to the highest bidders. We were explicitly warned about this. The clearest and most apropos warning of how Western technology companies were selling censorship technology to repressive regimes came from Hacktivismo, years ago. Please see their article Waging Peace on the Internet (probably not work safe, depending on your workplace), and see whether it exactly describes this story. I especially like the 'pigs at the trough not noticing the bacon being trimmed off their a$$' metaphor.

Excellent, feel free to stay in Canada where your freedoms are protected. Well, except your freedom of speech, eh?

Hacktivismo's License: http://www.hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php
FSF's Opinion: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html

The FSF claims that a source license can't enfore restrictions like that.

You might want to check out the "Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement" (HESSLA):

http://www.hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php

It's a license that promotes human rights. When I release my own software I use the HESSLA along with the additional provision that:

"No part of this software may be used to wage or support war, or by the military or military contractors."

Back in 2002, at H2K2 Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo (http://hacktivismo.com/) talked about a "new" protocol called Six/Four- aimed at circumventing the censoring in China and other places in the world by using simple tunneling to proxies. I believe the project flopped but was still a step in the right direction.

1. Theoretically, it is impossible to have anonymous communication on the Internet.
2. In practice it is a balance of resources. The trick is that it is much cheaper to publish contents anonymously, than to trace the origin of an information. Therefore projects like Hacktivismo - Six/Four, Crowds, Freedom-Net, Tarzan, Onion-Routing, etc. make sense.

Furthermore, it is often the content which speaks more about the authorship, than the chain of technical events that leads to the publishing of the information. In Slashdot, for example, I have chosen not to show my e-mail, etc., but by reading my comments even a 10-years old kid can make a deduction about my real identity. Does it make sense for me to use IP-tunneling then?

Finally, I do not understand the author. He just seems pissed. Maybe he will reconsider his opinion and revive the project. Is he sick from the lies (?) about the crypto-protocols used in the software which is written? IMHO the theory proves quite stable and if there is a room for attacks it is more in the implementations than in the protocols themselves. How many broken cryptosystems do you recollect (I know, I know "the knapsack", but it got broken on the conference on which it was presented).

Still, even with this project retreating, the subject remains interesting.

Some useful links to information on ethical and anti-war licensing issues:

Slashdot thread

Open Source Software License discussion list thread

Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement: an example of a license which takes ethical issues in to consideration

Freshmeat thread

Advogato thread

UserLand thread

Yahoo group to discuss open source ethics

http://www.hacktivismo.com/ - a Cult of the Dead Cow project that has been spinning its wheels for a few years. Very similar goals and targets as the academic project featured in the article.

I develop applications which I release under ethical licenses such as the Hacktivismo license which prohibits using the software to violate human rights and the like. The source is open and available and you are free to distribute and modify the source, as with any other open source license.

However I do believe Savannah and Sourceforge required their projects to stick to the Open Source Initiative's definition of "Open Source", which prohibited use restrictions (and therefore condoned human rights violations); so, these sites would not allow software with such ethical licenses, despite the software being otherwise completely "open".

So my question is: are there any other Sourceforge/Savannah-like sites that would allow such projects to be developed using the tools on their sites? How does Gforge fit in to this? Does it require people to use the GNU license or only licenses fitting the Open Source Initiative's strict definition of what makes for "Open Source"?

I'm not involved, but I'm a regular user.

I am the opposite in a way, I am not a user at all. But I run a node because I want to support the project and its ideals. Yeah, it uses java, and I am not thrilled about that but I run it and kill and restart it when it spins out of control. I may dedicate a separate machine to it soon. I would run an IIP IRC server/proxy but I haven't read the docs to figure out if that is possible (anyone have the one line answer?)
I have run Grapevine because it looks promising, but as of now doesn't do alot yet. I will also run 6/4, these guys may not have received as much press and recognition as freenet but they have put alot of thought into their license, I would put it in the category of seminal documents that make a stand for freedom like the Magna Carta, US Bill of Rights, GPL... that may seem overreaching, but you can check it out for yourself at 6/4 License

I want to do what I can to support people doing experimentation, sometimes you need stuff running out in the wild to be able to move your project forward. I use plenty of low profile Open Source stuff that is imperfect in various ways. One of the main reasons I use and support Open Source software is to support innovation, freedom and liberty - I don't look at every package as "What can this do for me?" esp since the cost to me of helping out is relatively low compared to people who risk their lives to speak out whether it is standing in front of a tank or publishing articles.

I'm not involved, but I'm a regular user.

I am the opposite in a way, I am not a user at all. But I run a node because I want to support the project and its ideals. Yeah, it uses java, and I am not thrilled about that but I run it and kill and restart it when it spins out of control. I may dedicate a separate machine to it soon. I would run an IIP IRC server/proxy but I haven't read the docs to figure out if that is possible (anyone have the one line answer?)
I have run Grapevine because it looks promising, but as of now doesn't do alot yet. I will also run 6/4, these guys may not have received as much press and recognition as freenet but they have put alot of thought into their license, I would put it in the category of seminal documents that make a stand for freedom like the Magna Carta, US Bill of Rights, GPL... that may seem overreaching, but you can check it out for yourself at 6/4 License

I want to do what I can to support people doing experimentation, sometimes you need stuff running out in the wild to be able to move your project forward. I use plenty of low profile Open Source stuff that is imperfect in various ways. One of the main reasons I use and support Open Source software is to support innovation, freedom and liberty - I don't look at every package as "What can this do for me?" esp since the cost to me of helping out is relatively low compared to people who risk their lives to speak out whether it is standing in front of a tank or publishing articles.

The Hacktivismo group has been writing software to help the Chinese and others that are being censored. I was very interested when I heard about the "Six/Four" protocal that they were writing for anonymous browsing. Has anyone heard any news on the development of this or any other projects like it. (I'm aware of freenet) Anyway, here is their project page. They're an interesting group that seems to be pushing for free distribution of information.

The Hacktivismo group has been writing software to help the Chinese and others that are being censored. I was very interested when I heard about the "Six/Four" protocal that they were writing for anonymous browsing. Has anyone heard any news on the development of this or any other projects like it. (I'm aware of freenet) Anyway, here is their project page. They're an interesting group that seems to be pushing for free distribution of information.

The Hacktivismo group has been writing software to help the Chinese and others that are being censored. I was very interested when I heard about the "Six/Four" protocal that they were writing for anonymous browsing. Has anyone heard any news on the development of this or any other projects like it. (I'm aware of freenet) Anyway, here is their project page. They're an interesting group that seems to be pushing for free distribution of information.

This sounds an awful lot like Six/Four, though I don't know what the status of that project is.

Another anonymous peer to peer system is being developed called 6/4. Many will recognize this as a tribute to the massacre at Tienamen Square and rightly so. It was not developed in order to thumb our noses at the **AA organizations but since they are attempting to inpinge on our rights why not use this tool against them as well.
Download here
Please note these restrictions:
1. You cannot download this software from us if you are a national of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria. Sorry. That's the rule and we cannot let you copy it if you are a national of one of these countries.

2. You cannot download this software from us if you are located in Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria (or you are located in an embassy, consulate, or other facility that belongs to one of these countries). Again, that's not our rule but it applies to us and we intend to obey it.

3. You cannot download this software from us if you are an entity on the "Denied Persons List" published by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security. The Denied Persons List is published here or here [text file]. The most recent changes to the Denied Persons List are published here.

4. You must be a Certified Patriot! In our view, it is exceptionally patriotic to be a member of Hacktivismo and to advocate civil liberties all over the world. And we don't view people who agree with George Bush, John Poindexter, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, or Don Rumsfeld as very patriotic at all. It is patriotic to disagree with Mr. Bush and other friends of Big Oil. But neither we nor George Bush can decide unilaterally whether you are a Certified Patriot merely based on your politics or point of view. A "Certified Patriot" has come to mean anybody (even communists, militia members, muslim extremists, animal-rights activists, tree-huggers, vocal critics of John Ashcroft, and card-carrying members of the ACLU) not listed as a "Specially Designated National" or "Blocked Person" by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC"). The OFAC list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons [PDF] is located here [PDF] or here [text file]. The most recent changes [PDF] to the SDN and Blocked Persons List are published here [PDF]. IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT LIST, THEN YOU, TOO, ARE A CERTIFIED PATRIOT! Congratulations! ;-)

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes. The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website. "It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs Milonic. "It's very unfortunate for him because of those comments he made."

It exists. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53799,00.ht ml Wired had an article about it a while ago, and so did Slashdot. Here's the download: http://www.hacktivismo.com/news/modules.php?name=C ontent&pa=showpage&pid=19

Is this what you mean?

Hey man, I agree with you about all of this, and there have been days recently with all of the malarky passing into law where I almost felt the urge to chuck it all - and live like it was 1975 - paper and all. But by the time they manage to get this huge bureacratic behometh to do this type of dirty work we could very likely see a massive decentralized ad-hoc and an emerging phenomona called Smart Mobs and anonymous surfing provided by Hacktivismo, censorship-free and anonymous information via Freenet, open spectrum and finally perhaps anonymous digital cash from Yodel Bank.

Planet P - Liberation With Technology.

Endnotes: Zi Xiang Mao Dun

P2P geektivists could note a parallel decentralisation of resources in the Future Trends section, in Chapter One for more on innovation at the Edge of the network:

"Dissidents, Falungong practitioners, and other activists in the PRC and abroad may increasingly turn to emerging peer-to-peer technology to exchange information."

Many reporters have highlighted Wan's work in raising awareness about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, - and also Gay & Lesbian rights in China. CPJ also highlight Wan's role as a webmaster - and as a leading critic of Beijing's neo-fascist Information enviroment, and cult-like Pledge of Self-Discipline Yahoo!

CPJ concerned about safety of Web publisher

Wan Yanhai is a courageous man - our thoughts are with him, Su Zhaosheng - his wife, and his family.

Read: The Great Firewall of China, by Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, HRIC - and CPJ's Asia Research Associate Sophie Beach, from the L.A. Times of August 25, 2002....

http://www.aizhi.org/ [aizhi.org]

Starting testing...

Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.

Testing complete for http://www.aizhi.org/.
Result:

Reported as accessible in China

Tested at request of Greg Walton,
China's Golden Shield, Corporate complicity in the development of surveillance technology in China Le bouclier d'or de la Chine

Open Source Intelligence

Http://go.openflows.org [openflows.org]

Related stories:

Where is Wan Yanhai?
China's most prominent AIDS activist has been "disappeared" - believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups said yesterday.

China Net Spies

...there was recent evidence that state censors had removed the blocks on some banned Web sites to see who tried to access them. "The reverse-trace route monitoring we do on a regular basis shows a surprising number of interesting sites that were once blocked are now going through, but with anomalous traffic signatures, suggesting some systematic surveillance of sensitive sites. Perhaps the PSB [Public Security Bureau] is trying to learn more about surfing habits," he said.

The "Great Firewall" is failing
Beyond the Great Firewall - from censorship to surveillance
Gartner: China's Internet Strategy: Struggling to Maintain the "Great Firewall"
China, Nortel, and the Net

or Ethan Gutmann's Who Lost China's Internet?

if you're still interested.....Chapter Two of the private RAND study published Tuesday, "You've got dissent"offers an authoritative analysis of the evolving, multi-layered counter-netwar strategies deployed in the PRC -> increasingly redistributing the focus of the so-called "Great Firewall" from the International Gateways, through the ISPs and out to the cybercafes [;-)cracked versions of these filters available], the possibility of .cn ISPs setting policy on individuals' firewalls in offices and homes

Endnotes: Zi Xiang Mao Dun

P2P geektivists could note a parallel decentralisation of resources in the Future Trends section, in Chapter One for more on innovation at the Edge of the network:

"Dissidents, Falungong practitioners, and other activists in the PRC and abroad may increasingly turn to emerging peer-to-peer technology to exchange information."

All this augurs a mighty struggle deep indside China's networks in the coming years, but with China sending dissidents to mental hospitals a culture of self-censorship is probably the gravest challenge to free experssion.

Note to CowBoyNeal,language barrier: this installation has problems with Chinese charcters - there'd probably be people out there who have modified SLASHcode to handle Chinese UNICODE, and perhaps publish automatically to USENET, Freenet etc.

they'd probably also find time to translate this thread.

i'd like to go on, but some government employed s'kripty in Yunan's is busy thinking he can backdoor my network - its not an ethical thing - its the aesthetics i've got a problem with...so crude, juvenile. I'll leave you with a final link

Many reporters have highlighted Wan's work in raising awareness about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, - and also Gay & Lesbian rights in China. CPJ also highlight Wan's role as a webmaster - and as a leading critic of Beijing's neo-fascist Information enviroment, and cult-like Pledge of Self-Discipline Yahoo!

CPJ concerned about safety of Web publisher

Wan Yanhai is a courageous man - our thoughts are with him, Su Zhaosheng - his wife, and his family.

Read: The Great Firewall of China, by Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, HRIC - and CPJ's Asia Research Associate Sophie Beach, from the L.A. Times of August 25, 2002....

http://www.aizhi.org/ [aizhi.org]

Starting testing...

Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.

Testing complete for http://www.aizhi.org/.
Result:

Reported as accessible in China

Tested at request of Greg Walton,
China's Golden Shield, Corporate complicity in the development of surveillance technology in China Le bouclier d'or de la Chine

Open Source Intelligence

Http://go.openflows.org [openflows.org]

Related stories:

Where is Wan Yanhai?
China's most prominent AIDS activist has been "disappeared" - believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups said yesterday.

China Net Spies

...there was recent evidence that state censors had removed the blocks on some banned Web sites to see who tried to access them. "The reverse-trace route monitoring we do on a regular basis shows a surprising number of interesting sites that were once blocked are now going through, but with anomalous traffic signatures, suggesting some systematic surveillance of sensitive sites. Perhaps the PSB [Public Security Bureau] is trying to learn more about surfing habits," he said.

The "Great Firewall" is failing
Beyond the Great Firewall - from censorship to surveillance
Gartner: China's Internet Strategy: Struggling to Maintain the "Great Firewall"
China, Nortel, and the Net

or Ethan Gutmann's Who Lost China's Internet?

if you're still interested.....Chapter Two of the private RAND study published Tuesday, "You've got dissent"offers an authoritative analysis of the evolving, multi-layered counter-netwar strategies deployed in the PRC -> increasingly redistributing the focus of the so-called "Great Firewall" from the International Gateways, through the ISPs and out to the cybercafes [;-)cracked versions of these filters available], the possibility of .cn ISPs setting policy on individuals' firewalls in offices and homes

Endnotes: Zi Xiang Mao Dun

P2P geektivists could note a parallel decentralisation of resources in the Future Trends section, in Chapter One for more on innovation at the Edge of the network:

"Dissidents, Falungong practitioners, and other activists in the PRC and abroad may increasingly turn to emerging peer-to-peer technology to exchange information."

All this augurs a mighty struggle deep indside China's networks in the coming years, but with China sending dissidents to mental hospitals a culture of self-censorship is probably the gravest challenge to free experssion.

Note to CowBoyNeal,language barrier: this installation has problems with Chinese charcters - there'd probably be people out there who have modified SLASHcode to handle Chinese UNICODE, and perhaps publish automatically to USENET, Freenet etc.

they'd probably also find time to translate this thread.

i'd like to go on, but some government employed s'kripty in Yunan's is busy thinking he can backdoor my network - its not an ethical thing - its the aesthetics i've got a problem with...so crude, juvenile. I'll leave you with a final link

What ever happened to ?

Is there any info on this?

Hacktivismo is down and I didn't see anything on cDc

According to their press release they use "LSB steganographic techniques".
In the stego world this is roughly equivalent to using ROT13. If you try and hide any sizeable amount it's a joke to detect. There are many better methods- F5, SSIS, etc...

Easy... Try the project (named peek a booty) website.
You can also go visit the Hacktivismo one, or the cDc one...
Enjoy!