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by phkahler
18 days ago
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Permissive licensing is a large part of the issue TFA is talking about. GPL does not have those issues. All FLOSS suffers from AI ingesting the code and being able to output work-alike programs to some extent, but for now large GPL programs - Inkscape, Firefox, VLC, Blender, FreeCAD, KiCAD, the Linux kernel, etc are all safe - none of them are permissively licensed so nobody can proprietize them (is that a word?) Unfortunately (in my opinion) the rewrite it in Rust movement also abandoned non-permissive licensing, so over time a progressively larger body of work will fall to this. |
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You can also just set some LLM in a loop up with objdump and a C compiler and "copyright-wash" work-alikes of any proprietary software out there. Can't wait for someone to start burning tokens on doing it to baseband firmware and watch everyone who cheered on the non-GPL chardet (plus regulators) squirm.