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Re:The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models by mixedbit on Thursday November 27, 2025 @10:02AM (#46069871)
Before LLMs programmers had pretty good intuition what GPL license allowed for. It is of course clear that you cannot release a closed source program with GPL code integrated into it. I think it was also quite clear, that you cannot legally incorporate GPL code into such a program, by making changes here and there, renaming some stuff, and moving things around, but this is pretty much what LLMs are doing. When humans do it intentionally, it is violation of the license, when it is automated and done on a huge scale, is it really fair use?
Re:The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models by WithinReason on Thursday November 27, 2025 @10:28AM (#46070111)
> this is pretty much what LLMs are doing

I think this is the part where we disagree. Have you used LLMs, or is this based on something you read?

Re:The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models by mixedbit on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:02AM (#46070489)
Do you honestly believe there are people on this board who haven't used LLMs? Ridiculing someone you disagree with is a poor way to make an argument.
Re:The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models by WithinReason on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:36AM (#46070849)
lots of people on this board are philosophically opposed to them so it was a reasonable question, especially in light of your description of them