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#Sourcecode is written by humans, for humans. High level #programming languages aren't used because they're the natural languages of the machines, they're simply the preferred form of humans to interact with them and with other programmers. So, when we talk about #AI code, what we're really talking about is about making source code, as we know it, irrelevant. Once humans largely get out of the picture, source code is no longer the original blueprint, the beating heart of a program... just an intermediate step in machine code generation. Like bytecode.

From this perspective, the #freesoftware and #opensource movements are greatly weakened by AI. They were started from very different assumptions of what the source code is good for, and in the AI era, they're starting to lose this original purpose and utility. Having source code that is open, and freely shareable between people, makes no longer as much sense when all we got over there is just #agentic output, coming out from fully propietary systems no less, and in which the LLM prompt was the actual blueprint of the program instead of the formal programming language that was generated by it.

Not only there's little to learn, little wisdom and value derived from humans reading code being generated by this process. But the #GPL, #MIT, #BSD or #Apache licenses used to distribute it become just as irrelevant as the code they're protecting; after all, these #licenses can't carry over to the LLM prompt. The elephant in the room for many people is: why bother with open source licensing, when the source code itself doesn't play as prominent a role in #computing anymore? It is perhaps in this manner that the tech #multinationals are moving to finally embrace, extend and extinguish the whole free software movement. Specially with so many prominent open source insiders actively collaborating with them in the pursuit of large pools of funding and personal financial gain.

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Licenses like GPL are reciprocative licenses. If you take, you must also give back.

Licenses like MIT are parasitic licenses. You can take without giving back.

#software #freedom #licenses #reciprocative #parasitic

@ruisan I’d call it a reciprocating license.

And I’d call licenses where you can take without giving back parasitic licenses.

#licenses #reciprocating #parasitic

#JohnDeere's ongoing #GPL #violations: What's next - #Conservancy Blog - #SoftwareFreedomConservancy

"As we have been doing privately for multiple years, we now publicly call on John #Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations, across all lines of its #farm equipment, by providing complete source code, including "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable" that the GPL and other #copyleft #licenses require, to the #farmers and others who are entitled to it, by the licenses that Deere chose to use."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/