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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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932 points sohzm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.257s | 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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xoralkindi ◴[04 Jul 25 08:15 UTC] No.44462347[source]▶
I think it will push opensource/ free software hackers to close source their code because it is being used to feed LLMs. Similar to how allot of hardcore free software proponents don't use Github. Is closed source the future?
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bayindirh ◴[04 Jul 25 11:02 UTC] No.44463415[source]▶
> Is closed source the future?

No. I don't believe that. I personally want my code to outlast me and help people in the future, but I don't want allow anyone to just scrape it, strip its license and use for whatever. I use (A)GPLv3+, because I believe in "Freedom for the user", not "Freedom for the developer" which permissive licenses provide.

My code is not free labor for anyone. It has conditions attached.

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1. acedTrex ◴[04 Jul 25 14:11 UTC] No.44464741[source]▶
This will not stop the AI companies from using it in their training data.