ibraheemdevMar 19

Astral to Join OpenAI

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

Astral to join OpenAI

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.

Show threadNiloCKMar 19

A concern:

More and more plainly, OpenAI and Anthropic are making plays to own (and lease) the "means of production" in software. OK - I'm a pretty happy renter right now.

As they gobble up previously open software stacks, how viable is it that these stacks remain open? It seems perfectly sensible to me that these providers and their users alike have an interest in further centralizing the dev lifecycle - eg, if Claude-Code or Codex are interfaces to cloud devenvs, then the models can get faster feedback cycles against build / test / etc tooling.

But when the tooling authors are employees of one provider or another, you can bet that those providers will be at least a few versions ahead of the public releases of those build tools, and will enjoy local economies of scale in their pipelines that may not be public at all.

Show threadvolkercraigMar 19
It's not any different from the launch of the FSF. There's a simple solution. If you don't want your lunch eaten by a private equity firm, make sure whatever tool you use is GPL licensed.
Show threadpetcatMar 19

The biggest scam the mega-clouds and the Githubs ever pulled was convincing open source developers that the GPL was somehow out of vogue and BSD/MIT/Apache was better.

All so they could just vacuum it all up and resell it with impunity.

Show threadkjksfMar 19

I don't remember GitHub or Amazon advocating MIT over GPL.

Feel free to prove me wrong by pointing out this massive amount of advocacy from "mega-clouds" that changed people's minds.

The ads, the mailing list posts, social media comments. Anything at all you can trace to "mega-clouds" execs.

Show threadcolesantiago

https://choosealicense.com/

https://choosealicense.com/about/

> "GitHub wants to help developers choose an open source license for their source code."

This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.

Choose an open source license

Non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

Choose a License
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Show threadsupern0vaMar 19

>This was built by GitHub Inc a very very long time ago.

So long ago, in fact, that it was five years before their acquisition by Microsoft.

Show threadthayneMar 19
I don't see anything on there saying that non-copyleft licenses are better, unless you are in an ecosystem that prefers a different license.
Show threadMaster_OdinMar 19
The site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?
Show threadkpcyrdMar 20

I think this was more about "please choose _any_ license" because of the problem outlined here:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1150/is-my-co...

Is my code FLOSS just because it is published it on GitHub?

Does publishing my code on GitHub make it FLOSS automatically? Is there some license automatically assigned to it? Is it "technically or say literally, open source"?

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