Like I said, the web's the wild west. It'd require sifting through a lot of noise and there's no guarantee you can reconstitute a sane codebase that you can learn something practical from. So yeah, they could do it, and if the net is indiscriminate it will probably be in there, but trying to target it is pretty pointless given the incredibly tiny returns.
If gitlab starts doing the same as github, I will delete all my items from gitlab and use only anon ftp.
Next week looks a bit busy now.
The way "real" OSS licenses (by OSI) allow use for any purpose has been a major reason the movement has succeeded and for that it's worth putting up with some users doing stuff the authors might not like.
It seems to me the author is concerned about terms of a free software license not being maintained in versions of the code redistributed, especially by LLM agents.
The GPL requires derivative works to also be GPL licensed.
Will coplot or other tools abide by this requirement?
This is disputable. GitHub demands so many additional rights from the uploader, in particular, using the code for AI training. This violates the attribution part of all OSS licenses, so only the original copyright holder can upload to GitHub and give GitHub these rights.
bigyabai•8mo ago
Feels like a moot point, this goes for anything you upload anywhere (as reprehensible as it is). Perhaps all music and movie clips should be taken off YouTube lest someone train an AI on them? Analog video makes a return to stop the evil consequences of digital training?
andrepd•8mo ago
bediger4000•8mo ago
But as far as The Web goes, apparently all content is very loosely owned, copyright is gauzy and difficult to discern, and oligarchs want to do away with it altogether.
It's not hard to figure out that the "hidden variable" here is that already wealthy people typically held music, movie and book content, while plebes without the money to sue hold web content copyright.
guube•8mo ago
bonki•8mo ago
johnea•8mo ago
This assumes that uploading to github does not involve granting other rights to M$ that would violate the original license, such as attribution or copyright.
bonki•8mo ago