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Its purpose "if you run the software you should be able to inspect and modify that software, and to share those modifications with your peers" not explicitly re
by webstrand 7mo ago
Its purpose "if you run the software you should be able to inspect and modify that software, and to share those modifications with your peers" not explicitly resist copyright. Yes copyright is bad in that it often prevents one from doing that, but it is not the purpose of the GPL to dismantle copyright.
Reducing it to "well you can clone the proprietary software you're forced to use by LLM" is really missing the soul of the GPL.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoIf not for copyright, you could always do that and copyleft wouldn't be needed.
- webstrand 7mo agoJust because something is copyleft doesn't mean the person who gave you the binary you're using has to supply you with the code the used to build it. That's what the GPL does.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoThat's... the very definition of copyleft. If it's not like the GPL, it's not copyleft.