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PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-animals-were-hurt-during-the-creation-of-this-story dept.

Anders writes "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the largest animal rights organization in the world, endorse a new FLOSS license. From the article: 'The Harm-Less Permissive License (HPL) is a permissive, non copyleft, software license. It is based on the FreeBSD license but with one additional restriction; the "harm-less" clause. It prevents software, licensed under the HPL, to be used for harming humans or animals.'" I guess this leaves the bunny-fueled power plant in Stockholm out in the cold.

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  1. What PETA really means by DevConcepts · · Score: 1, Troll

    People Eating Tasty Animals

  2. PETA is helping animals around the world. by pinklogo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I support anything that helps animals -- and that is what PETA is doing.

  3. Never mind unadoptable... by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... they routinely snatch people's pets from gardens and off the street and euthanise them. They also recommend that people mutilate their cats by ripping off the top joint of their toes (declawing) and damaging their teeth so that they can't hunt or eat solid food (dead rodents, for example). How ethical is it to stop a cat being a cat?

    PETA want the complete elimination of all animals. Or at least, that's what it looks like.

  4. Re:FLOSS software? by Khashishi · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is not free software. If you want to promote free software, you also have to make it available to parties or uses you might disagree with. Otherwise it is not free.

    Which is why the only free software is public domain.