Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware
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| author | Cheong, Marc Kula, Raula Gaikovina Treude, Christoph |
| author_facet | Cheong, Marc Kula, Raula Gaikovina Treude, Christoph |
| contents | A key drawback to using a Open Source third-party library is the risk of introducing malicious attacks. In recently times, these threats have taken a new form, when maintainers turn their Open Source libraries into protestware. This is defined as software containing political messages delivered through these libraries, which can either be malicious or benign. Since developers are willing to freely open-up their software to these libraries, much trust and responsibility are placed on the maintainers to ensure that the library does what it promises to do. Using different frameworks commonly used in AI ethics, we illustrate how an open-source maintainer's decision to protest is influenced by different stakeholders (viz., their membership in the OSS community, their personal views, financial motivations, social status, and moral viewpoints), making protestware a multifaceted and intricate matter. |
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| spellingShingle | Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware Cheong, Marc Kula, Raula Gaikovina Treude, Christoph Computers and Society Cryptography and Security Software Engineering A key drawback to using a Open Source third-party library is the risk of introducing malicious attacks. In recently times, these threats have taken a new form, when maintainers turn their Open Source libraries into protestware. This is defined as software containing political messages delivered through these libraries, which can either be malicious or benign. Since developers are willing to freely open-up their software to these libraries, much trust and responsibility are placed on the maintainers to ensure that the library does what it promises to do. Using different frameworks commonly used in AI ethics, we illustrate how an open-source maintainer's decision to protest is influenced by different stakeholders (viz., their membership in the OSS community, their personal views, financial motivations, social status, and moral viewpoints), making protestware a multifaceted and intricate matter. |
| title | Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware |
| topic | Computers and Society Cryptography and Security Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10019 |