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Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec resigns after option allowing corporate LLM use without disclosure wins vote (lists.debian.org)
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[–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It has been wild to see Linux users hope that the GPL is rendered unenforceable.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Why? The entire purpose of GPL is to counteract copyright. If there is no copyright we no longer need GPL either.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

    The GPL gives you the right to access and modify the source code of software you use. A lack of copyrights does not mean that the creators have to share the source code with you. In fact, it means that anyone can take GPL software and turn it into closed source software

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Sure but that's mostly irrelevant in practice now. Gpl was notoriously unenforced so this aspect of "getting source code" almost never yielded to much in practice. FSF did a great job with limited resources it has but as code copyright is basically gone now and reverse engineering is so accessible we can actually empower real free software that is fully transparent and verifiable. If you imply that somehow we'll start regressing existing tools to proprietary software I don't see that at all.

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