Post #2117045
2026-04-28 18:32 UTC
@toxi
> For years, we were labeled naive altruists and were stuck with the issues of existing FLOSS licenses which were written by people who (mostly) explicitly rejected any ethical/moral constraints of use and instead sold this lack as "freedom to use for any purpose", a core pillar of these licenses.
And then it turned out the licenses wouldn't've mattered anyway, because their power comes from copyright, and corpos convinced the judges that LLM training is exempt from copyright...
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2026-04-28 18:39
@toxi A programmer has power as long as the software has not been written. Once the software has been written, it is only the law that gives the programmer any leverage. Well, unless you do DRM. And if you could affect the law to prevent your enemies from ignoring your licenses, couldn't you also affect the law to prohibit unethical use of software in the first place? There should've been a strike. Is there a union I can join?