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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by HenriTEL on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:21AM (#35420651)
> On the one hand we happily train humans on GPL code. Those humans can then write their own functions,but for trivial functions they're gonna look a lot like GPL Source.

Exactly. People are getting mad that Microsoft is making good money while the people who made all that free software available mostly did it for free (like in no money and no recognition). It can sound unfair but that's the deal. If you didn't want people or AI to learn from your code, open source was not the right option.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by mftrhu on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:35PM (#35429067)
> If you didn't want people or AI to learn from your code, open source was not the right option.

There's nothing wrong with other people using - learning and creating derivative works of - one's open-source code, provided they respect the terms of the license. It seems to me that the real issue is the fact that these licenses don't have enough teeth.

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