Re:Automatic Programming
by its_ubuntu on Sunday February 01, 2026 @02:27PM
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One thing I'd love to point out here, to anyone wading through this discussion:
Step back and notice the VAST AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY being wasted here and elsewhere, arguing about who claims to own what. What a giant waste, in an age where digital machines can reproduce any information infinitely for practically free.
Thanks, copyright law, and all the parasites (lawyers, etc) who depend on it for their big, expensive livelihood. Thanks to the government and corporations who have squeezed us all and made it so hard to make a living that everyone feels they now have to monetize and profit from everything to survive. The gift that keep on giving.
Established OSS licenses are all from before anyone imagined that LLMs would come into existence, let alone train on and then generate code. Discrimination on purpose is counter to OSI principles (https://opensource.org/osd):
> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
The GPL argument you describe hinges on making the legal case that LLMs produce "derived works". When the output can't be clearly traced to source input (even the system itself doesn't know how) it becomes rather difficult to argue that in court.