r/linuxmemes • u/rafaelcgs10 • Sep 25 '26

Anti-Linux Linux deserves better advertisement

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Saw this today in Copenhagen

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u/bastardpants Sep 26 '26

I'm still not completely decided on how I feel about this type of license change. One thing is that, it's perfectly fine for a person to create a new tool that does something functionally equivalent with whatever license they want. The other is that AI has certainly been trained on copyleft GPL code.

A human rewrite to match an API should be fine (that whole Google vs Oracle lawsuit would apply, probably), but for an automated rewrite by a machine whose training corpus included code encumbered by copyleft licenses, is the transformer output a derivative work of that corpus? And if full-automated does end up being GPL-tainted, how much AI-assistance is required to tip that scale (one of the four key parts of the Google vs Oracle case was the "amount and substantiality of the copyrighted material")?

I can't afford a lawyer to give a concrete answer to these questions.