"To be specific, a clause which outright forbids the use of your code for training a machine learning model will make your software non-free, and I do not recommend this approach.
Instead, I would update your licenses to clarify that incorporating the code into a machine learning model is considered a form of derived work, and that your license terms apply to the model and any works produced with that model."
#DrewDevault, 2022
Remind me again why developers are still hosting Free Code development on GritHub?
"With GitHub, it takes the form of disregarding the terms of free software licenses. In the process, they built a tool which facilitates the large-scale laundering of free software into non-free software by their customers, who GitHub offers plausible deniability through an inscrutable algorithm."
#DrewDevault, 2022
"Now it’s #LLMs. If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned, including expensive endpoints like git blame, every page of every git log, and every commit in every repo, and they do so using random User-Agents that overlap with end-users and come from tens of thousands of IP addresses..."
#DrewDeVault #article #crawler
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
@kasra_mp It's not a question of how long it took (though that's a strong indicator of Google's dedication to the task), but of what the result is:
The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications.2
I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.
It is impossible to:
-- Drew DeVault
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
Complexity is a principle tool of monopolisation.
#DrewDevault #EmbraceExtendExtinguish #W3CSpecification #Complexity #Google #GoogleChrome
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