How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial)
- Be a huge company
- Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
- Train AI model on code from your purchase
- Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
- Laught at Stallman and his lifework
- Profit
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Let's be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:
Be a huge company
Make your employees sign an NDA
Make your code closed source
Use GPL code and not give a shit because you're a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team
Larry, is that you?
7 - AI generate code has no copyright
8 - Windows is now public domain
9 - Insert despicable me meme
Well, time to migrate to codeberg
Tell me more
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Sounds pretty good.
They also are working towards creating federated instances, by extending ActivityPub!
Wait is Github enshittifying already? I thought that was on next year's schedule?
GitHub has began enshittifying since the launch of GitHub Copilot.
That doesn't bypass anything. Though it runs the risk of putting AGPL code in your proprietary app if copilot decides to copy it verbatim - thereby making the whole thing AGPL'd.
No. To bypass GPL you have to be a big company, not respect the GPL (not respecting the law is called risk management) and gain more than what you would owe if someone sues you
Wouldn't AGPL fight that?
Not until somebody challenges it in court and wins...
Actually, Github Copilot litigation trial has done good work so far: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html
I hadn't seen this before, thanks for sharing. Following legal battles is an odd experience, because even when they're exciting, they run slowly. It'll be interesting to continue to follow this case
A bit out of the loop here, anyone mind giving me a tl;dr ?
Github Copilot.
Context:
GitHub CoPilot is a code-writing AI that had been trained on the projects hosted on GitHub.
The code CoPilot has written is derived from open source projects including GPL ones, however it does not require users to abide by these licenses, thus opening up potential for litigation as it technically infringes on GPL license of the code CoPilot was trained on.