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by keewee7 1262 days ago
Why have so many of these AI models been trained on GPL licensed code? Almost half the controversy could have avoided by ignoring GPL code.

I know that even non-copyleft licenses like the Apache and MIT licenses are copyrighted and require attribution however it would have caused far less controversy than training on GPL licensed code.

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Yes, whoever signed off on that wasn't thinking clearly.