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Cake day: January 29th, 2025
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldtoOpensource@programming.dev•Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code
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    7 days ago

    If you read the article, you’d see…

    What the GPL changes is the commercial benefit. Under MIT, someone can take Asahi’s code, close it up, and sell a product, and that’s perfectly legal as long as the notice stays in.

    Under the GPL, anyone who distributes a modified version has to release the source under the same license. You can’t legally build a closed, paid Apple Silicon distro on top of GPL code. And if a product’s source has to be public, the copying is easier to spot.

    The article explains that the GPL license will enable legal action against future use along those lines - and that WINE did the same thing back in the 90s, and its worked for them.

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldtoOpensource@programming.dev•Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
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    1 month ago

    Pretty weird to read the author’s joy of pre-AI coding, their concerns about what’s happened over the last few years to open source and public repo management, have them laser-focus on exactly where it all went wrong… and then at 2/3rds though the article go, “oh btw I use AI constantly and I’m not changing, and I don’t suggest anyone change. Its just such damn shame, I can’t think of a solution”.

    Solution is right there, friend.

    Return to monke.

    Ban the slop on your repos (as many projects have). Go back to using your brain. Go back to enjoying coding, and the community of coding with others through open source.