roonilwaslib
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
> It _is_ hard
Using modular licenses might mitigate the problem of managing a frankendocument, but I have to agree: making ethos licensing viable would require a ton of effort. The SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) standard includes boolean expressions to combine licenses[0], like `MIT AND ISC`. It would be difficult but conceivable for a lawyer to write human-readable and enforceable licenses each forbidding one specific use. Bundling licenses with `AND` into cohesive super-licenses covering ethical standards would take more effort. Figuring out what ethical standards a large-enough ecosystem of engineers agrees upon is another herculean task.
Still, I think the efforts are worth it: I'd like to opt out of some subsidizing fields of endeavor but not others. IANAL, just a programmer, but I'd be interested in contributing to ethos-licensing-related projects.
[0]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-IV-SPDX-license-ex...
Comment · 7 years ago
From the second item on their FAQ (https://projectvesta.org/frequently-asked-questions/):
> The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the release of CO2 from mining, milling, and transport of olivine creates an approximately 4-6% loss on CO2 removed.
I'd still like to see the LCA.
I'd recommend python based on the slightly-saner tooling. I've found that python with conda/pipenv/poetry results in mostly reproducible installs of the tools needed to run a computation.