The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft
Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the "freedom to fork" from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/
« Porter atteinte au copyleft est un acte grave. Refuser d'accorder à autrui les droits que l'on a soi-même acquis […] est profondément antisocial, quelle que soit la méthode employée. [...] Le logiciel libre repose sur des communautés d'utilisateurs et de développeurs qui soutiennent fermement le copyleft. »
L’IA générative se base sur des techniques prédatrices et néocolonialistes, nouvel exemple.
❓ Wie sind Abgrenzungen beschaffen, die Commons identifizieren und schützen?
❕Commons werden nicht strikt abgeriegelt. Ihre durchlässigen Grenzen sind keine unverrückbaren Linien der Trennung, sondern Kontakträume mit Potenzial zur Inklusion. Die Membranen, die Commons umgeben, schützen vor Einhegung, Vereinnahmung und Trittbrettfahrerei, aber auch vor ideologischer Abschottung. Sie werden nicht vorrangig staatlich kontrolliert.
👉 Die CopyFairLicense räumt Commoners mehr Nutzungsrechte ein als jenen, die Inhalte zu kommerziellen Zwecken nutzen wollen.
👉 Im selbstorganisierten Supermarkt Park Slope Food Coop ist nur Mitgliedern das Einkaufen erlaubt. Allerdings darf jede Person Mitglied werden, sofern sie sich der Satzung verpflichtet.
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(A View different from the RT)
GNU and the AI reimplementations http://antirez.com/news/162
And we got a spooky friday, and we have a spooky topic to talk, what about the Android project? And how it's slowly becaming shit in the hands of google. Looks like it's time to take back, time to make Linux Phone.
https://jeferson.me/blog/2026/03/13/copyleft
#AGPL #Blog #AI #Android #Apache #Copyleft #Google #GPL #License #Linux #MIT #Models #OpenSource #RightToRepair
You're speculating on the reasons #SCOTUS denied cert. There is nothing in their denial that supports your argument.
The big picture stakes are high (of course). Focusing on a year-old case as if it actually tells us something new merely because SCOTUS denied cert is just a mechanism for spreading FUD.
Here's a full analysis of the entire DC Circuit Ruling:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/mar/04/scotus-deny-cert-dc-circuit-thaler-appeal-llm-ai/
Cc: @downey
No Serious Implications for FOSS from SCOTUS' DenialEarlier this week1, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) denied certiorari (cert) in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Thaler contended that an image — generated by a Large Language Model (LLM)-backed Artificial Intelligence (AI) — deserved copyright registration. Since the U.S. Copyright Office refused to grant the registration, Thaler appealed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit). That Court affirmed the Copyright Office's decision. SCOTUS' denial of “cert” means they will not hear the case. Strictly speaking, this denial does not affirm the DC Circuit Court's ruling, but it does mean the DC Circuit decision stands.
@soller I'm relying primarily on hard-work, regular research, and constant vigilance, not luck and not FUD.
It is not time to panic.
I urge folks to read what #SFC has published on #LLM's & #AI
The biggest problem we have is the funding gap between those of us trying to save #copyleft & those who are creating the problem.
We'll need less luck and be able to more easily apply the other skills I mentioned if folks support #SoftwareFreedom Conservancy.
OP (see uphtread) has misunderstood this (year old) Court ruling quite a bit.
It's ok—we all make mistakes. The important task now is to correct the mistake.
I encourage boosting of this reply to address & draw attention boost to the prior error.
I assure you #copyleft (& software itself) *are not* seriously impacted by this ruling, and #SFC remains constantly vigilant on these matters.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/mar/04/scotus-deny-cert-dc-circuit-thaler-appeal-llm-ai/
IANAL but AFAIK @soller isn't either.
Cc: @downey
#LLM #AI #legal #Court #GPL #LGPL
No Serious Implications for FOSS from SCOTUS' DenialEarlier this week1, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) denied certiorari (cert) in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Thaler contended that an image — generated by a Large Language Model (LLM)-backed Artificial Intelligence (AI) — deserved copyright registration. Since the U.S. Copyright Office refused to grant the registration, Thaler appealed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit). That Court affirmed the Copyright Office's decision. SCOTUS' denial of “cert” means they will not hear the case. Strictly speaking, this denial does not affirm the DC Circuit Court's ruling, but it does mean the DC Circuit decision stands.
I love when I see something that I started has taken on a life of its own.
I have way more ideas than I have hours in a day.
Nothing like running into your handiwork out in the wild.
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