tanteMar 5

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

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Show threadPete / Syllopsium

@tante Whilst this is an interesting and popcorn worthy thread, and has many possible implications I would point out you mean GPL, you do not mean Open Source. Plenty of BSD code out there that anyone can do whatever they want with.

It is also nothing to do about monetization - it's entirely possible to monetize GPL code, particularly LGPL.

I'd point out it's nothing new. Take Unihertz, for instance, who have repeatedly released smart phones based on GPL code and not released their modifications. Not many people shouting about it, and what has happened, exactly?

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Show threadWaitman GobbleMar 6
They can do as long as they follow the terms of the license. People have been improperly using licensed code way before AI. Just adding a BSD license is not techically legit nor is saying it's BSD licensed.

Router mfgs are horrid about breaking the license. I was looking at admin of one today that says it contains GPL code with a link to GPL license on their site. Where is the code?