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Can't release someone else's proprietary source under a "do whatever the fuck you want" license and actually do whatever the fuck you want, without getting sued
by kgwxd 1y ago
Can't release someone else's proprietary source under a "do whatever the fuck you want" license and actually do whatever the fuck you want, without getting sued.
- deadbabe 1y agoIt’d be like trying to squeeze blood from a stone
- clipsy 1y agoIt'd be like trying to squeeze blood from every single entity using the offending code, actually.
- CursedSilicon 1y agoIt's incredible watching someone who has no idea what they're talking about boast so confidently about what people "can" or "can't" do
- iechoz6H 1y agoYou can do that but the fact you don't get sued is more luck than judgement.
- rzzzt 1y agoThe license does exist so you can release your own software under it, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
- TeMPOraL 1y agoOnly more reason for OSS to embrace AI generation - once it leaks into enough widely used or critical (think cURL) dependencies and exceeds certain critical mass, any judgement on the IP aspects other than "public domain" (in the broader sense) will become infeasible, as enforcing a different judgement would be like doing open heart surgery on the global economy.
- windward 1y agoThat's the situation we're already in with copyleft licences but legal teams still treat them like the plague.