Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware

Autor:	Cheong, Marc, Kula, Raula Gaikovina, Treude, Christoph
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computers and Society Computer Science - Cryptography and Security Computer Science - Software Engineering
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	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. Comment: Under submission
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10019 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv