28 July 2025 to 1 August 2025
Erholungs-Gesellschaft Aachen 1837
Europe/Berlin timezone

Ethical Aspects of Using, Writing, and Distributing Software

31 Jul 2025, 12:00
30m
Erholungs-Gesellschaft Aachen 1837

Erholungs-Gesellschaft Aachen 1837

Reihstraße 13, 52062 Aachen

Speaker

Markus Demleitner (Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie)

Description

I will argue why the classical Four Software Freedoms (Use, inspect, improve, share) are much more than utopian dreams of idealists with long beards. On the contrary, in addition to them providing an inclusive social contract fostering software development in a process resembling the scientific process itself, it is also an important ingredient to FAIR software that is sustainable in both senses of the word.

Sustainability AI / Sustainable Programming & Footprint

Primary author

Markus Demleitner (Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie)

Presentation materials