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You'll need to clarify what your specific goals and concerns are. Most of my code is open source because I want people to build derivatives. There's lots of lic

• palata 2y ago
  The question is specifically about the problem with licenses, if I understand correctly. AI is now a big license-laundering machine, so there are not "lots of license variations to consider": AI just removes the license, whatever it is.
• ericxanderson 2y ago
  Also, depending how the legalese shakes out, you could still be compensated if they stole your code.
  • b20000 2y ago
    and how are you going to be compensated when an AI model has been trained on it, and your code is spit out? and who will pay for the litigation?
    • shrimp_emoji 2y ago
      For the legally paranoid, this is already a "fruit from the poisoned tree" situation. Some people are informally "banned" from working on whole categories of open source projects because they've had provable exposure to closed source code in the same domain. That's a partial motivator in maintaining pseudonymity online. If no one knows who you are, and they don't know you've done kernel work at Microsoft, you or the open source kernel project you're contributing to can't be sued by Microsoft, hypothetically, for "inspiration". There's legal questions here for which there's never been precedent, so nobody knows where the line is -- and this is all before LLMs ever entered the picture. For other countries, whose courts don't rely on precedent, it's even more of a minefield since the legal outcome of a case is always undefined behavior.