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I've never spent the time delving (IANAL) into this and maybe it has to be addressed or maybe it needs to be fought out in the courts, but here is the question:
If an LLM was trained on code that is subjected to GPL/GPLv2/GPLv3/AGPL licenses, then surely the generated artifacts are also subjected to those licenses?
Am I wrong?
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Are there any licenses that prevent use by genAI companies ? Or generally for-profit companies? 🙏
Edit: maybe this? https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses
(I know nothing about licenses, could someone confirm that any of these would work?)
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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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Starting with version 16, the entire base code of #FreeBSD will no longer contain any #GPL dependencies.
I find the thicket of #licenses too confusing, which is why I have only looked into #CC in any detail for my blogs. However, the fact that the developers of a significant #Unix system are making such a major effort to take this step gives me food for thought. Even without fully grasping the broader context, I respect the move.
I will now wait until #FreeBSD16 has been released before proceeding with my planned experiments. #Linux
https://www.fosslinux.com/159185/freebsd-16-gpl-free-linux-implications.htm
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Research Libraries, AI Research and Contract Override - Slaw https://www.slaw.ca/2026/07/02/caught-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-research-libraries-ai-research-and-contract-override/
“AI is changing expectations. Our collections are no longer just materials to read; they are becoming data to compute, analyze, model, and interact with conversationally.”
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"... At the very least, the non-amended #emergency provisions regarding #water in the Water Act should be restored, and the water related amendments deleted, with certain exceptions such as the #provision stipulating that emergency #measures apply to deemed #licenses...."
18/24
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Amendments to the #Forest and #Prairies #Protection Act provide the #province with the authority to assume #command and actively support #municipalities responding to a #wildfire. And amendments to the #Water Act provide #Cabinet authority to determine priority of water use under water #licenses, and allow ‘low risk’ transfers between major water basins for use during #emergencies like a prolonged #drought.
Concerns are best articulated by a ABLawg.ca report:
16/24
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#Water #transfers should #maintain #public #transparency with #identification of #risks and #benefits to the #environment and the #public good.
To summarize, SAGE believes that meeting water #conservation objectives (WCOs) and preserving grasslands should be a minimum requirement before allowing the greater use of water in closed basins. Regardless of the water #licenses under FITFIR, meeting minimum flows for aquatic #ecosystem #health is the #priority.
11/24
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... such as not enforcing licensee #compliance with #conditions.”
The proposed amendments continue to promote the notion that #water #licenses are 'property #rights’ rather than a ‘right of use’. The FITFIR approach to water #management has inherent limitations considering the anticipated water regimes under prolonged #drought scenarios under #climateChange. These limitations are #complicated by the notion of #property rights.
10/24
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A 2024 Surface #Water #Management Performance Audit by Alberta’s Auditor General found that (p. 9) “the Department of #Environment and Protected Areas has no water #conservation objectives in most basins; does not know if existing water conservation objectives are working; lacks robust processes to #monitor water pressures, assess #risks, and decide when water conservation objectives are needed, and; has ineffective #processes to approve #licenses and #monitor #compliance...
9/24
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#Public #processes are an essential aspect of good decision-making.
Bill 7 also allows for the easier #transfer of #water use through water #licenses by extending the point of use or point of diversion beyond those set out in the original license. More positively, a more consistent measuring and #reporting of actual water use may be required.
6/24
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RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@opensource/116554773393178663
Although I like the point of departure... there are various #opensource #licenses defining what you can and cannot do with an open source.
So, choose carefully #government !
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Brendan Carr ‘Launches’ His Bogus FCC ‘Review’ Of ABC Broadcast Licenses And It’s Just Pathetic And Stupid
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Free Software Licenses
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testing only, don't watch this
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Athletics Ireland: New Coaching Database and License System. “Athletics Ireland is pleased to announce the launch of its new Coaching Database and License System, designed to enhance the support, recognition, and governance of coaching across the organisation. … Under the new system, all coaches who are registered members of Athletics Ireland, hold a Level 2 or Level 3 coaching qualification, […]
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I also like the ACAB license
Quote: "No business entity where the ratio of pay (salaried, freelance, stocks, or other benefits) between the highest and lowest individual in the entity is greater than 50 : 1 may use the work for any reason."
but it's not really applicable to this project.
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Been working on an open source thing. yada yada yada - which license to pick? MIT is the obvious choice but has the big problem that it is ethically indifferent. If I do not want my project to be used for bad and evil things, what do I do?
Hippocratic License? Do No Harm License?
Thoughts?
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Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War
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How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps
The big push for state digital driver's #licenses that we’ve been warning about is effectively a movement to increase the power of big companies and government to control individuals. One feature of the licenses most states are adopting that may prove to be particularly dangerous is #revocation — how and when people’s IDs can be canceled
#unperson #ID #privacy #securityhttps://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/un-personing-with-digital-id
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OSI 2025: Permissive Licenses Dominate Open-Source Amid AI and Cloud Shifts The OSI's 2025 ranking highlights the dominance of permissive open-source licenses like MIT and Apache 2.0, driven by...
#DevNews #AI #integration #Apache #2.0 #MIT #License #n-source #licenses #permissive #licenses
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TIL that audio/video encoders and decoders licenses are a PITA. If you create an app that uses a file format, you must pay the license per install if the format is proprietary. This cost is usually passed on to you, the consumer of a streaming service. I get that proprietary codecs may have come with significant R&D and offer value due to their network or compute minimal impact. That is why we use them. We often confuse open-source with free software, but they are not the same. You can have open-source and still pay for a service that is built on top of said open-source.
Flathub, elementaryOS are moving towards building a pay the developer model. If successful, we should see Linux adoption for services increase.
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I am beginning to think that a lot of the OSS software I originally licensed under Apache 2.0, I should re-license new releases under MPL 2.0.
MPL is supposed to be nearly the same as Apache, except that it requires modifications at file level to be left as MPL.
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Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership?
I'm sharing a new text where I try to summarize some older thoughts that have been slowly fermenting in the past years regarding the dead-end in which the digital commons have landed. I discuss the discomfort of their growing ambivalence, and the incredible difficulty, but urgency to move forward beyond this concept and rethink collective objectives in relation to digital tools and practices.
It is the follow-up of a copyleft/copyright/copywhat licensing workshop I gave at https://spookstad.boo. Amsterdam Alternative asked me to contribute an essay on the digital commons based on some of the topics discussed in the workshop for their web docu on collective ownership.
The text is also available in Dutch, thanks to a translation by Menno Grootveld from Starfish Books.
Illustration: @l03s
https://www.collectiefeigendom.nl/en/ownership/digital-collective-ownership
#commons #digitalcommons #freesoftware #opensource #creativecommons #licenses #freeculture #collective
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West Virginia University: Knee Regulatory Research Center Releases Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database to Study U.S. Licensure in Unprecedented Depth and Detail. “Today, the Knee Regulatory Research Center—a nonpartisan research center focused on labor, health, and regulatory frontiers—announced the release of the Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database […]
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[News] “Case Filed at Germany’s Top Court to Challenge Arms Exports to Israel”
by Palestine Chronicle Staff
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@UKLabour“The constitutional complaint is directed against #German #export #licenses for #tank #transmissions manufactured by the company #Renk.Tanks in which these transmissions are installed are being used extensively in Gaza”
