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A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it's a copyleft license they can't just outright steal it.
All the big tech companies are built on open source projects... No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.
Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.
Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague
That's where the magic plagiarism LLM comes in to launder the code.
Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav
If the code is GPL they'll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though
Yep, corporate software developer here and they're scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl'd.
When all the valuable code is free, the price of valuable code will be 0.
People will only profit from the value of the code, not the creation/ownership of the code itself. LLMs seem like they're dropping the cost of code creation significantly (50-90% so far)... impacted players should plan accordingly.
It's a fundamentally different model, not a broken one. It will break a lot of businesses if they don't adapt.
But they can, and do.
Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don't know it's there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn't follow the terms of the license, and you're set for life.
Only if you can afford better lawyers than they can.
If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who's willing to take their pay out of the winnings.
Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don't. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?
Dual licensing is a thing, so it's not 0€$£. Also if they didn't care for the license, it's probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn't even better known.
Once you blast the lawsuit into the press your software gets better known. FFmpeg was fairly well known before it got hijacked and stuffed in every set-top video decoder box on the planet, but now it has that reputation as well.
I was referring to AI scraping.
wait... it will be a matter of national security and like you know "you and what army"
Yeah, I thought that foolishness was behind us with the crypto export impossible to enforce rules, but it's baaaack with AI.