Post #2796024
2026-03-08 01:31 UTC
@yosh@toot.yosh.is @soph@grrl.me Or perhaps rather it *is* a problem, but it's an existing problem, not a new one. For most projects.
The GNU project in contrast generally wants copyright assignment from contributors exactly to help avoid this sort of issue with license enforcement: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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@JamesWidman@mastodon.social 2026-03-11 21:12
@ids1024@mathstodon.xyz @yosh@toot.yosh.is @soph@grrl.me the point is that if the LLM's output is not copyrightable, then for that code, the GPL does not apply, because in order for a license to mean anything, _someone_ must first hold the copyright. That means that if we somehow get to a point where *all* of the code in the kernel was produced by an LLM, then anyone could ship a binary of that version of the kernel without shipping source code, and GNU/FSF wouldn't be able to do anything about it.