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Clever, an unenforceable copyright license for free software that prohibits you from editing the source code using an IDE with autocomplete.
by kragen 1y ago
Clever, an unenforceable copyright license for free software that prohibits you from editing the source code using an IDE with autocomplete.
- tensor 1y agoYou probably can't even index it, depending on how you interpret AI. Any vector based system, or probably even tf-idf, could qualify as machine learning and thus AI.
- kragen 1y agoYeah, it definitely prohibits you from applying latent semantic analysis, so you could probably violate the license by indexing it with Elasticsearch, but that's a less common thing to do with source code than opening it up in an IDE. TF/IDF seems like a borderline case to me.
- tensor 1y agoPutting the source in Github indexes it, as well as probably any github competitor. Hell, if you're not careful even things like Mac's spotlight might index it. Any web search engine will also index it.
- kragen 1y agoHmm, that's a good point about Spotlight. Does it do LSA? A web search suggests that the answer is "not by default".