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by dylan604 1792 days ago
In the realm of FOSS, I feel like it's not the same comparisons. The FOSS devs created the work, released that work with the express knowing that someone else could update/modify that work. Writing/art/videos are rarely released with copyright that allows this kind of modification. That's a huge difference. There are some FOSS releases that allow people to use for personal/private use while restricting commercial use. This is closer to the books/movies type of scenario.
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I mean sure, but these are both legally defined works with licenses that govern their use. The difference is in the style of license. FOSS doesn't get a special moral valence because individuals are authors and they offer their work for editing and remixing under narrow circumstances. I mean, if Jeff Bezos today were to release code he wrote by hand with GPLv3 and were to cry foul over Copilot, I doubt anyone would care (or he'd get made fun of online.) Why does FOSS get treated so differently?