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by samwillis 1258 days ago
The difficulty here is its not clear that a user (Human or otherwise) has explicitly agreed to a license when they read content, including published code, on the internet.

Even with that in a license file on a public repository on GitHub or elsewhere I don't think it is currently legally binding under the current understanding of the law. We need test cases to go though the courts and potentially amendments to copyright law to make it clear that a license can restrict a user's privet use of content that is on the public internet.

Alternatively it needs to be found under copyright law that a ML model infringers on the content it is trained upon, unless it is licensed for that use case. Again that is not the current understanding of current copyright law.

Point is, a license with that in it probably does nothing to help, currently.