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New License Forbids Human Rights Violations?
KjetilK writes "A new license published by Hacktivismo, builds on Free Software licenses but adds clauses to "promote fundamental human rights of end-users". For those deeply involved in politics, this is a good idea, but Free Software Licenses have traditionally placed no restrictions on use." There's a news article about this as well.
"For those deeply involved in politics, this is a good idea, but Free Software Licenses have traditionally placed no restrictions on use."
This is not strictly true. The BSD license used to disallow use of software issued under it from being used by the "Police of South Africa", to make a point against apartheid.
Camera/Shy does one thing right: It encrypts the data. Well, almost right -- their keying is a bit broken, but it's still strong enough
The steganography, however, is entirely broken. The method they use -- fiddling with the least significant bits -- is trivial to identify, even when implemented correctly; but they bungled the implementation (doing wierd things like base64 encoding, which leaves an extremely obvious signature) as well.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Is that the same thing American doctors do to make a quick $150 bucks from suckers... err American parents?
I think what he ment was, indeed, female circumcision . Far from being a laughing matter, it is a horrible mutilation.
Altough male circumcision is medically debateable, female circumcision is not, and it is a MUCH more destructive mutilation.
Working for necessity's mother.
Amnesty says US leads in human rights violations following September 11
Released secret documents prove US involvement in Chile
A very brief timeline of US intervention in Latin America and the Carribean
A Cato institute report linking terrorism against the US directly to US interventionist policies worldwide
The Age of Imperialism: an online history of the US
I could keep looking up stuff like this for hours, but I'm getting bored and depressed. Try on google, look for US massacre, intervention, human rights abuse, etc. We Americans need to educate ourselves on what our government has been doing in our name while we weren't looking.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Yes, but as another poster pointed out, it's political message stays within the realm of computer programs. This license steps over into areas unreleted to technology.
The cool thing about human rights violations is that they are something your political opponents engage in, never something you do.
-- Terry
Here's the list of executions for crimes committed as a juvenile since the reinstatement of the death penalty (in 1976):
Charles Rumbaugh
J. Terry Roach
Jay Pinkerton
Dalton Prejean
Johnny Garrett
Curtis Harris
Frederick Lashley
Ruben Cantu
Chris Burger
Joseph Cannon
Robert Carter
Dwayne Allen Wright
Sean Sellers
Douglas Christopher Thomas
Steven Roach
Glen McGinnis
Gary Graham
Gerald Mitchell
Napoleon Beazley
T.J. Jones
Toronto Patterson
More than half of the executions were done in Texas. The last three were executed this year and the last two executed in August.
So here are some more links to document the sordid history of the US abroad.
The Long and Hidden History of the US in Somalia
Us Approves Invasion of East Timor
A brief history of CIA involvement in the drug trade
The Philippine War and Anti-Imperialism
Hawaii's annexation a story of betrayal
Keep modding me down and I will keep posting new links. My karma is capped right now so we could be here all night. How is it flamebait to talk about human rights abuses in the US in a story about a software license that forbids such abuses?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Can you name one person executed in the US under the age of 18 in the past fifty years?
Sean Sellers was 16 when he committed the murders he was executed for.
I've seen this a few times in the newspaper, and it took me fifteen seconds to find on Google. (Of course, it helped knowing that Oklahoma was one of the states.) Texas has executed 19 juvenile offenders since 1976.