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GPL is dead. Companies like the not-at-all-evil-any-more Microsoft copied it all into a state machine, put some AI branding on it, and now it's available in you
by JonChesterfield 2y ago
GPL is dead. Companies like the not-at-all-evil-any-more Microsoft copied it all into a state machine, put some AI branding on it, and now it's available in your text editor with some errors to splice into commercial applications, license free.
I don't think there's any point to marking code with GPL at this point. I'd rather people use code as-is than route it through some LLM obfuscation and then use a buggy derivative. Either someone sues Microsoft and wins, which seems numerically infeasible, or we should relicense everything MIT and have done with it.
- redder23 2y agoYou make no sense, by your logic everyone should unlicense or https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL everything. Basically just give up on any serious license because AI is going to steal it anyway. MIT makes no sense for what you describe.
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- JonChesterfield 2y agoPeople have funny ideas about unknown or missing licenses. MIT is widely recognised and understood. It means people who want to follow the license can use your work, as opposed to only people who are happy to ignore the license.
- ranger_danger 2y agoI've always said GPL is only as useful as your ability to enforce it in a court.