Ethical considerations toward protestware

• Main Authors: CHEONG, Marc, KULA, Raula, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Ethics; Codes; Artificial intelligence; Software; Ecosystems; Stakeholders; Software development management; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8760; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9763/viewcontent/marc.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article looks into possible scenarios where developers might consider turning their free and open source software into protestware. Using different frameworks commonly used in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, we extend the applications of AI ethics to the study of protestware.