If you fork an open source project and nuke the git history, that's considered to be a "dick move" because you are erasing the record of people's contributions.

LLMs are doing this on an industrial scale.

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OJFord 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't really understand how that isn't allowed/disallowed simply on the basis of whether the licence permits use without attribution?

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FeteCommuniste an hour ago | parent [-]

The hard truth is that if you're big enough (and the original creator is small enough) you can just do whatever you want and to hell with what any license says about it.

	▲	zahlman 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To my understanding, the expensive lawyers hired by the biggest people around, filtered through layers of bureaucracy and translated to software teams, still result in companies mostly avoiding GPL code.