2026-02-24 03:07 UTC
@DataGhost@mstdn.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org
> It’s also a violation of the GPL
Under what? GPL gives you the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software as long as you publish the derivative work as GPL too. Releasing a truly open source model with training data, training scripts, hyperparameters, and everything needed to reproduce the model would not violate GPL.
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@DataGhost@mstdn.social 2026-02-24 03:50
@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @tante@tldr.nettime.org The output of that open model will incorporate the GPL code it was trained on, generate derivative works, and strip all credit and licensing. Apparently this is an unsettled area of copyright law, so please set aside “violation of the GPL”. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#:~:text=video.-,The%20exception%20would%20be%20when%20the%20program%20displays%20a%20full%20screen%20of%20text%20and/or%20art%20that%20comes%20from%20the%20program.,-Then