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This Ethical License for Open Source, created by At The Root

Table of Contents

• 🔗 AntiRacist Ethical Source License
• 🔗 Draft Status
• 🔗 Usage
• 🔗 FAQ
• 🔗 Press Coverage
• 🔗 Contributors
• 🔗 Adopters
• 🔗 Contributing

AntiRacist Ethical Source License

Ethical Source Licenses empower Open Source Contributors to know that the derivative works of their intellectual property will be used to build a world in which we are all comfortable. It is with great imagination and determination that we present The AntiRacist License (also known as the ATR License) in earnest.

Draft Status

This is a draft version, pre 1.0 of the AntiRacist License. We are accepting contributors for the first release. To learn more about how to contribute check out the Contributon section below. This license has been adapted from the Hippocratic License 3.0

Usage

Copy the license into the root directory of your project, add your copyright information and use the abbreviation ATR where necessary to describe your choice of license. Add badge to the README.md of your project.

FAQ

Q. Why create this license?

A. This is but one of the many tools we can use to demand equity, consideration, humanity within the Open Source community. All of the derivative works that include this license will be subject to the ethical requirements listed.

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Q. Can I add/remove parts to this license?

A. Yes, but you must use a modified name of the license.

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Q. Is this license enforceable?

A. Yes, we and the legal counsel we've worked with at The Corporate Accountability Lab in partnership with Organization for Ethical Source think so. The way the mettle of any license is tested is through court system. We look forward to keeping community apprised of its performance. If you'd like to learn more about how the Hippocratic License and The AntiRacist License both work toward an enforceable Ethical Source License, check out this video of Sameeul Haaque discussing it in more detail

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Q. Why not use the Hippocratic License?

A. There palpable gap in protections for people marginalized by race, ethnicity, nationality, caste, phenotype or genotype in software. Every day more stories are reported describing how technology fails our community. This license values experiential data and puts the needs of the most marginalized first.

Ultimately, the goal of the Hippocratic License is different than that of this license: The HL3 sets to communicate a widely accepted standard of human rights and demand its equal application over open code, while The AntiRacist License (ATR) seeks specific and thoughtful protections for people marginalized on the basis of race or attribtues commonly conflated with race and its application to open code.

Press Coverage

Interested in writing about the AntiRacist License? email contact@theroot.dev

Contributors

• Leland Gill
• John Soto
• Dawn Wages
• Sameeul Haque

Adopters

Submit a PR! Add yourself to our adopter's repo.

Contributing

We have weekly meetings on Tuesdays! Please email contact@theroot.dev to be added to the working group.

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