Post #2796001
2026-03-06 20:35 UTC
@michalfita@mastodon.social
My point here is not to use them, nor to try to salvage them. Unless the code being created can have IP assigned to it (which it can't in the case of LLMs, as we've now seen in court cases), then it can't be contributed to an open source project in a way that is compatible both with the letter and spirit of open source.
It's two parts, really. Even if you *only* trained on code from one license, because of the above it's still not compatible.
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@michalfita@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 21:24
@soph@grrl.me But the same interpretation would apply to proprietary code generated using LLMs trained on whatever. If the copyright protection cannot be granted in result of lack of novum IP, that's violation of any license granted to customers in exchange for money. Am I wrong? If someone would train the model from scratch on own code and materials they have license for (in this case not open-source), that would be their unique tool in their private bag that couldn't be rejected from protection.