The glaring double standard between how big tech treats your code versus their code:

- When they steal code from your repository (or directly from your IDE as part of telemetry data): "this is fair use" or "it is transformative synthesis". Or they'll make grandiose claims such as "this is the inevitable path of human technological progress".

- If you try to take from them (remember that courts lean towards AI output not having copyright protection, it is public domain): you get sued to oblivion on trade secrets or EULA violation.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Copyright #Law #IntellectualProperty #GPL #AI #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #Agentic #Coding #CodingAgent #bigtech #FOSS_LLM

Ihr möchtet nicht, dass LLMs eure #OpenSource Projekte mittelbar kopieren, ohne dass die #GPL (o.ä.) verletzt wird?

Könnte so klappen: Projekt auf #Codeberg hosten, aber alle Quellen mit git-crypt verschlüsseln. Den Schlüssel bekommen alle, die per Mail versichern den Code ausschließlich auf eigener Infrastruktur unverschlüsselt abzulegen. D.h. kein Hochladen per LLM-API oder in öffentliche Repos. Kollaboratives Arbeiten funktioniert nach wie vor per MR zwischen Menschen mit Schlüssel.

Is Open Source licensing meaningful anymore, or are we just left with public domain?

What are the legal distinctions between GPL, Apache, and MIT when AI companies and LLMs ignore the LICENSE file of your project? There's no license text that they will respect and nothing will stop the automated, industrial-scale strip mining of our intellectual property.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Copyright #Law #GPL #AI #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #Agentic #Coding #CodingAgent #FOSS_LLM

Как один зажёванный лист в принтере Xerox привел к созданию GNU Linux и всей философии Open Source

Принято считать, что современный IT-мир построили Гейтс, Джобс или Торвальдс. Но без одного бородатого хакера из MIT, который в 80-х вусмерть разругался с принтером Xerox, у нас бы не было ни Linux, ни Android, ни концепции Open Source в её нынешнем виде. Ричард Столлман — создатель проекта GNU и вирусной лицензии GPL, самый радикальный, неудобный и бескомпромиссный философ от мира IT. Долгие годы индустрия считала его эксцентричным параноиком, который принципиально не пользуется смартфонами и шарахается от проприетарного софта. Но в эпоху тотальной корпоративной слежки и коммерциализации каждого байта его идеи внезапно обрели новый, пугающе актуальный смысл. Вспоминаем историю человека, который в одиночку решил сделать программное обеспечение свободным — и у него почти получилось.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1041420/

#Ричард_Столлман #Richard_Stallman #RMS #GNU #Linux #GPL #Free_Software #Open_Source #Emacs

Как один зажёванный лист в принтере Xerox привел к созданию GNU Linux и всей философии Open Source

Введение Когда речь заходит о создателях современного IT-мира, принято вспоминать Торвальдса, Гейтса или Джобса. Но давайте начистоту: без одного упрямого бородатого хакера из MIT не было бы ни...

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In the midst of the LLM hype I feel like #GPL and other #opensource and #freesoftware licenses are no longer compatible with the core ideology of free software. https://www.atns.net/post/foss-needs-a-new-license
FOSS needs a new license

Most open source software is also free software. In everyday conversations people use the two terms interchangeably and so will I in this post.One of the most popular free software licenses is the GNU GPL. It is used by the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE (LGPL) and countless other big and small projects. It’s a license that, in the past 37 years, has played an important role in shaping the open source landscape. The GPL was created to block many different vectors of abuse associated with software dist

Confessions on a keyboard

Yeah, so... I'm gonna go ahead and link to a AI dude writing on Substack (the nazi bar) complete with slop "art" header, because although I am a hardliner, I am not a puritan nor a fanatic.

Dude has employed robot minions to discover myriad bugs. This is good, actually.

However, $ = bug finding, more $$$ = finding more bugs.

Do you see why this makes the GPL or something like it imperative? Do you see? DO YOU SEE?

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/finding-miscompiles-for-fun-not-profit

#AI #GPL

Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit

Or: You don’t need access to Claude Mythos to spend $10,000 in an afternoon.

SemiAnalysis

In the mean time, the FSF made a clear statement on the Onlyoffice – EuroOffice case: https://u.fsf.org/4b2

Indeed, one can not add arbitrary terms to the (A)GPL and claim that ones software is under that license. If an added term represents a "further restriction", anyone is allowed to remove that restriction.

(A)GPL licenses are made to preserve software freedom, not for actors to use them for open washing, claiming to be open yource while trying to take a way freedoms from users at the same time.

@fsf @ONLYOFFICE

#AGPL #GPL #opensource #openwashing #eurooffice #onlyoffice #softwarefreedom

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

California Wants To Exclude Linux and Other Open Source Systems From New Age Checks - gHacks Tech News

A proposed amendment to California's Digital Age Assurance Act would exempt open source operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD from age verification requirements.

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If you are interested in #audiobooks like me (I love listening to them when I'm on a long walk/hike) you might want to have a look at Supertonic for #Android It's based on the #Supertonic engine. So far, this is the best #TTS I have found on Android in terms of natural sounding voices. It can read epub files and can export to a wav file so you can create your own audiobooks :)

Good for people with #ADHD :D

#edgecompute #gpl #ebook

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.brahmadeo.supertonic.tts/

Supertonic TTS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Local AI Text-to-Speech using Supertonic ONNX

»Also, I don't get *BSD anyhow. Who would contribute, when all of that could at some point be taken by a company that sells their products on the basis of other peoples efforts anyhow? Isn't this exactly what AT&T did to Unix? Weren't the BSD people p***ed because of it? So, now let's put a lot of effort in making #FreeBSD ready for mobile devices… so that others can take that work and sell their product as a proprietary thing in the future?« 🔥

#BSD #GPL