GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

Re:GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative... by api on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:52AM (#34275207)

FOSS licenses need to add provisions that only 100% open and free to download AI models can be trained on works licensed under them. They need to add this yesterday.

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Re:GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative... by gus_massa on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:21AM (#34275590)

Do you consider WTFPL a FOSS license? The polite versions are MIT0, BSD0 and CC0. I guess anyone using them is fine with Copilot been close and doing whatever they want. But people using AGPL may have a very different opinion.

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Re:GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative... by sebzim4500 on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:01AM (#34275330)

That's almost certainly not enforcable though. See any of the cases where people have succesfully defended webscraping while violating TOS.

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Re:GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative... by sadpasture on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:07AM (#34275413)

Doesn't sound very Free to me...

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Re:GitHub Is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative... by npteljes on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:06AM (#34276329)

I can see that in like GPLv4, they could consider AI training and such as derivative work.

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