Ask HN: What if Open Source Licenses Forbade Broad Surveillance?
Volunteer work engineered the surveillance apparatus (HDFS, GNU/Linux, etc). If such terms were added to even a fraction of the software likely in use, it might have a large impact.This could also make surveillance illegal if it violated licenses, and would give at least some legal basis for fighting its use. Further, if terms forbidding this use were suddenly dropped from GPL, say, it's like...