> Lastly, if you place restrictions on the use of the software then it’s no longer open source. This particular point is the topic of the post, to be fair. A p

> Lastly, if you place restrictions on the use of the software then it’s no longer open source. This particular point is the topic of the post, to be fair. A project with a copyleft license can still be "open source", even if it's not FOSS. > AI companies don’t need to be users of the software to train on its source code. I don't think this is true (or at least it's moot given the word "users"); they still need to legally obtain a copy of the source code, which is offered by the creator alongside a license. You can't just download a project from github and disregard the license that comes with it.