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Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-new-word-for-the-day dept.

jenwike writes: With the success of open source software today, we are seeing organizations undertake more egregious marketing and promotion schemes that exaggerate their participation in, contributions to, and/or licensing of open source software. Their hope is to capitalize on the label of 'open source' and the success that goes along with it. The reality is that the responsibility is on the end-users to review the software and accompanying license to ensure it meets your expectations.

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  1. Debian rejectsGame due to authors opinion on women by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A properly licensed opensource casino video game was
    recently posted to the debian bug tracker as a request
    for packaging, as is the standard method for pursuing
    such things in debian.

    The bug was quickly closed, tagged as "won't fix"
    The reason given by one of the debian developers
    alluded to the authors past anti-feminist remarks:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi...

    The piece of software in question is licensed
    under the GPL and is one of the only of it's
    kind for linux (ascii-art console slot machine software)

    Is professing progressive politics now a hard requirement
    for being allowed to contribute to free software projects?