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@larsmb > "I can't formally forbid my work to be used for mass murder"

Mass murder is already illegal, so what would you gain by adding another layer of illegal?

One goal of strong copyleft Free Software licenses is to prevent the abuse of licensing as a means to project power. That’s why I think "ethical source licenses" are wrong: they abuse copyright for power over people.

But I like your community approach, i.e. I tell a self-unmasked far-righters who ask for support: I don’t help Nazis.

@ArneBab Mass murder is not illegal when you call it war.
Saying we can't have rules against, say, religious discrimination because then some religion might have rules that discriminate is not convincing.
And likening rules for a software project for which there are always alternatives to those for public physical infrastructure also only goes so far.
I don't want to give my busses to those who make others sit in the back of the bus.

@larsmb Are there always alternatives to software projects? If yes: why can proprietary software enforce rules (which it does)?

I also don’t want to see people force people to sit in the back using my software. But whenever I think that that’s easy, I nowadays think of the middle east.

There are fascists and discrimination on both sides, so using my software would be forbidden for both sides and the civilians would not have cheap infrastructure, because that would support racism.
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@ArneBab That is a position you can take. I don't agree with it.

@larsmb OK.