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jcelerier 17 hours ago

> The credits for my code are protected (with the GPL you have to tell where your code originates from)

But that's literally anathema to the spirit of GPL. Copyleft exists only as a reaction to copyright which is sadly ingrained in legal systems, but the original thought about free software, at the time of GPL inception, is that in an ideal world, copyright shouldn't exist for software ; it's leveraged by GPL only to protect against abuse of copyright holders that could close open code, which is thus made impossible "legally" with the GPL. AI makes this distinction fal into "practically" as pretty much anything is "open" for individual use now (e.g the only use that matters).

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf

bonzini 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Attribution and copyright are separate. Who says that, even if copyright didn't exist for software, attribution also wouldn't?

If anything, the remark that I have to make to the parent is that in principle attribution is also required by non-copyleft licenses. However, I doubt it's respected for the hundreds of crates or npm modules in a typical Rust or JavaScript project...

mitxela 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even the true copyright abolitionists (who want companies like Oracle to be able to fork their software and make a billion dollars releasing the binaries) still use MIT license which requires attribution.

ndriscoll 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm a copyright abolitionist, but I think Oracle should be required to release the source code with their binaries as a basic consumer protection. I also don't care about attribution.

za_creature 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The spirit of free software is about learning from others and having control of your hardware.

Given the supposed commoditization of intelligence and recent memory prices, I'd say LLMs are literally anathema to the spirit of the GPL.

intrasight 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think "you own your own hardware" will be true for long.

Spirits don't get much legal protection.

mitxela 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If LLMs are as good at RE as everyone says, we will own our hardware again.

intrasight 16 hours ago | parent [-]

You'd have to build your own fab from ground up - meaning no ASML. Is not going to happen.

za_creature 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They used to. We used to call those spirits "rights".