# Ethics in Julia

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**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ethics-in-julia/43232 "2020-07-17T12:08:42Z")\
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I think that there are (legal/non-cultist) possibilities for small improvements, despite the limited power of licenses and the impossible challenge to predict the future.

Just some imaginary examples: (These are _not_ intended as suggestions…)

- The package maintainers are maybe happy for input about potential ethical issues, like in this case [[RFC] GenderInference.jl - #31 by kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rfc-genderinference-jl/22294/31)
- There could be guidelines (not rules) to raise awareness of some common issues.
- Surveys (yay 😉 )
- Outreach on different platforms to be more inclusive as a community.
- Common-sense rules for packages in the registry (like, not discriminating, …) [seems to be no problem so far.]

Sure, we cannot make everyone happy.  
Also, there are mechanisms in place, for example, the [Julia Stewards](https://julialang.org/community/stewards/). As far as I can tell they do a good job. Maybe that’s already more than enough.

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