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Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

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Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by lar [...]

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Mar 27 at 6:51pmWeb
Show threadLeFantome1d ago
Vibe coding and OpenBSD. The perfect combination.
Show threadcroes1d ago
Vibe coding and file systems are even better
Show threadhimata41131d ago

trying to load with linux ext4 hmm doesn't load, but it works with my version!

Must be a bug in the linux kernel, let me git clone and build an out-of-tree module...

Show threadLeFantome1d ago
Kent Overstreet has already blazed that trail.
Show threadFeepingCreature1d ago

> So as of today, the Copyright system does not have a way for the output of a non-human produced set of files to contain the grant of permissions which the OpenBSD project needs to perform combination and redistribution.

This seems extremely confused. The copyright system does not have a way to grant these permissions because the material is not covered under copyright! You can distribute it at will, not due to any sort of legal grant but simply because you have the ability and the law says nothing to stop you.

Show threadg0xA52A2A1d ago

Wow that thread just kept going. Whilst the LWN article covered most of the "highlights" I think this reply from Theo is pretty suscient on the topic at large [1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2

'Re: [patch] ext4fs rw' - MARC

Show threadbt1a1d ago

> Lacking Copyright (or similarily a Public Domain declaration by a human), we
don't receive sufficient rights grants which would permit us to include it
into the aggregate body of source code, without that aggregate body becoming
less free than it is now.

Thats awesome lmao

Show threadLeFantome1d ago

The article is largely about the copyright concerns of LLM generated code that was almost certainly trained on the GPL original.

Also, it is essentially an ext2 filesystem as it does not support journaling.

Show threadCodeWriter231d ago
Well this is ironic, GPL advocate(s) declaring a clean implementation based on specifications infringing due to someone/something reading specs provided under license. Didn't Oracle lose that argument in court as pertains to Android implementation of Java libraries?
Show threadcorbet1d ago
I'm not sure what you're reading; there is a distinct lack of GPL advocates in that conversation.