PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License 356
Anders writes "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the largest animal rights organization in the world, endorse a new FLOSS license. From the article: 'The Harm-Less Permissive License (HPL) is a permissive, non copyleft, software license. It is based on the FreeBSD license but with one additional restriction; the "harm-less" clause. It prevents software, licensed under the HPL, to be used for harming humans or animals.'" I guess this leaves the bunny-fueled power plant in Stockholm out in the cold.
My mouth is already watering (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be sure to "FLOSS" after eating my delicious manly steak tyvm.
Must use free-range coders (Score:2, Funny)
You can no longer pen them in cages to achieve the desired marbling. This confines this license to small projects.
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Oh! Harmless (Score:5, Funny)
I misread that as hamless and thought it was a Moslem/Jewish licence!
New disclaimer: (Score:5, Funny)
"No mules were flogged in the making of this software."
Re:I'm with PETA on this one... (Score:3, Funny)
They call it C SHARP for a reason.
Re:Thats nice... (Score:2, Funny)
I think I speak for most of the class when I say.. (Score:2, Funny)
... Fuck PETA. Fuck them right up their stupid terrorism-supporting asses. Until that vile cunt ringleader who is dependent on animal-derived insulin gives it up and just accepts the fact the she was born defective and the natural pecking order has singled her out for death, then they can all just eat me. If all animals are equal to us, then she can just suck it up and die.
Re:FLOSS software? (Score:5, Funny)
You definitely love gobbling down Steve Ballmer's sausage.
If Steve Ballmer's sausage were grilled to a crisp and slathered in mustard, I'd eat it right in front of him.
Re:New disclaimer: (Score:4, Funny)
Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass
Re:PETA is redundant, we have the SPCA (Score:3, Funny)
> If I were a cow, I'd take that over constant fear of predators and the threat of starvation.
You pre-ordered and iPad, didn't you?
Harm-Required License (Score:5, Funny)
This license is a permissive license, similar to the BSD license; however it requires at least one animal sacrifice when software is distributed. Note: 1 human sacrifice can be used to create a pool of 10 animal sacrifices. This reduces the amount of cleanup required.
Re:Thats nice... (Score:4, Funny)
If they program a great software for sorting and handling animals in animal shelters, they've effectively made it that anyone who uses the software cannot euthanize animals. Not a bad move, though it could open a whole can of worms.
Fortunately PETA is rabidly against canning worms, so that problem will solve itself!
Re:Insert PETA-VORE joke here (Score:2, Funny)
Hey man, seriously... There is a place for every animal.
Right between the mashed potatoes and green beans!!
Re:FLOSS software? (Score:2, Funny)
All this time, I thought PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals.
At least it does where I come from.
Re:FLOSS software? (Score:3, Funny)
That's silly, a tiger doesn't have long enough digits to use a shotgun. Oh, I see what you mean...
Even better - animal-supportive licenses (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FLOSS software? (Score:3, Funny)
I am an omnivore.
I'm an omnomnomnomnomnivore. At least, that's my excuse for this belly and I'm sticking to it :)
People Eating Tasty Animals? (Score:2, Funny)