Mastodawn

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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Cassandrich Mar 5

@tante And useful fools who claim to be stewards of FOSS are laying the groundwork and arguments for the industry to do this. 🖕 this guy.

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Andrew Wigglesworth Mar 5

@dalias @tante Non-copyleft licenses like the "MIT licence" are now being used as an active threat to free software.

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khm Mar 6

could have just as well said "public domain." the instrument of the idiocy is not the root cause here so much as the willingness to pretend this process is legitimate

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Cassandrich

@khm @ecadre @tante Hot take: the "pretending this process is legitimate" of "AI-laundering FOSS to seize and enclose it" and "watching the dissolution of US democracy" are the same thing and the same awful people.