Post #4165267

2026-07-28 13:43 UTC

"But Elly, all these hyperscaling assholes will scrape your data" and whatnot Yeah Yeah they will What do you want me to do about it My shit is *open source.* Usually CC0 or Unlicense. They have the right to do whatever they want with my code. My code belongs to the commons. If I didn't want people I didn't like to scrape it, I would not have published it online.

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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-28 13:48

Honestly spicy take: open source means accepting people will use your code in ways you don't like. The GPL does not contain a clause like "don't use this in a nuclear weapon" for example. Or "don't use this to murder innocent people." It does not contain a clause like "do not use this to train a model." Such prohibitions would not be allowed under free software guidelines and no one would ship your software. You accept this when you publish your code online: that someone you hate will use it. An example: remember when Stuart Semple made "the world's pinkest pink" and put it under the "anyone but Anish Kapoor" license? And then Anish Kapoor used it anyway? It's like that. If you don't like this, don't publish your code as open source.

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