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by xigoi 17 days ago
Before LLMs, you could use the GNU GPL or other copyleft licenses to protect your code from being used to develop non-free software. Unfortunately, the courts have decided that LLMs are free to ignore licenses.
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Copyleft is about republishing. You can't prevent anyone from using your compiler or text editor to develop non-free software.