by onpon4 » 12 Jul 2015, 13:35
Yeah, this kind of bullshit where discrimination is used to supposedly fight discrimination. Hypocrisy at its finest. I'm not surprised at all that it's serious, though; modern feminists do stuff like this quite often (like gender quotas in certain countries which are probably forcing companies to hire less qualified women in favor of more qualified men).
Also, women aren't a minority. The population of men and women is about equal, and actually there are slightly more women last time I checked.
It seems to me that, if this becomes a problem (i.e. any program you want to use falls under this license), this is the solution (don't take this as legal advice, as I am not a lawyer): Have someone who definitely can't be called a "white heterosexual male" strip the program of this absurd license and republish the program under the GNU GPL (or even a permissive license like the Apache License), since the license permits this.
To be clear, I think the only people who are unambiguously not "white heterosexual males" are people who were born unambiguously female and are still unambiguously female. So I would highly discourage doing this if you're a man, or trans-gendered, or have ever undergone surgery or taken hormones to change your biological sex, at least without consulting a lawyer. "White" and "heterosexual" (especially "white") are both extremely vague; different people can have completely different interpretations on these two.
This woman doesn't even need to be a programmer necessarily; she can just change the license and give the program to an actual programmer.