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the hippocratic license an ethical license for open source the hippocratic license build learn contribute adopters hippocratic license 3 0 hl3 an ethical license for open source communities technological advancement is often shaped by the choices and priorities of the powerful in particular the military governments and corporate interests their distorted priorities are often at odds with the promise of technology as a force for promoting justice and equity worldwide and this increasingly includes open source technologies traditional open source is based on the flawed premise that technology is fundamentally neutral and that unrestricted access to source code even for explicitly evil purposes is in fact an unqualified good but around the world open source developers are starting to realize that the software that they create with its tremendous potential to change the world for the better is also being abused to sustain and promote systems of inequity and injustice globally and at unprecedented scale the hippocratic license 3 0 hl3 aims to confront the potential harms and abuses technology can have on fundamental human rights it empowers open source communities to establish a clear set of ethical standards that licensees must abide by in order to adopt their code these standards are based on international agreements and authorities on fundamental human rights norms including the united nations universal declaration of human rights the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights the international covenant on civil and political rights and the international labour organization hl3 also offers optional modules that focus on specific areas of concern such as environmental justice labor rights and ethical supply chains this modular approach lets open source maintainers customize the license to reflect the unique needs and challenges of their particular communities healthy open source communities don t just form around code but also around shared values and a vision for how their work can improve the world the true measure of the success of open source is its impact how the technologies we develop are leveraged to bring about positive social cultural and political change to get started customize your license the hippocratic license was created by the organization for ethical source in partnership with corporate accountability lab you can support our work with a one time or recurring donation via open collective