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931 points sohzm | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source
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HacklesRaised ◴[04 Jul 25 07:57 UTC] No.44462235[source]▶
One starts to wonder whether the LLM vendors laissez-faire approach to the legality of ingesting copyrighted / licensed material will start to infect the industry in general?
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bayindirh ◴[04 Jul 25 11:00 UTC] No.44463401[source]▶
I, for one, deserted GitHub, and do not use for anything else personal anymore. I'm not against permissive licensing, but all my code will be (A)GPLv3 or later.

A particular project I'm working on will be on a private Git server until I complete and open it as a package. Even after that, I might keep the development closed and release tarballs only (aka Catherdral Model).

All code I write is also AI-Free.

It won't be possible to trust in people for a long time, it seems.

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1. 1oooqooq ◴[04 Jul 25 11:26 UTC] No.44463545[source]▶
if you ever used github for anything other than agpl3 you're doing it wrong
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2. bayindirh ◴[04 Jul 25 11:37 UTC] No.44463616[source]▶
None of my personal repositories are licensed with a permissive license. All of them are GPLv3, however I have found GPL licensed code in “The Stack”. Moreover, there’s an ancient and deleted tweet which confirmed GPL code (in fact any open repository) was used to train copilot in the beginning. As a result, I can’t trust anyone from now on.