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by codexb 1153 days ago
AI will just make non-permissive open source licenses more pointless than they already are. The GPL and similar licenses have been on a slow death march for over a decade. AI isn't doing anything that Human Intelligence isn't already doing. Every single developer has looked at non-permissive open source code for inspiration.
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The reason people can use code for inspiration is because of GPL and similar, do you see the problem with the logic you provided?

If all software starting being non-permissive and closed source, there would be no training data and no new innovation and even if there was, it would probably suck like it did before GPL and similar licensing was mainstream.

Yup. gg, gpl