2026-02-24 02:46 UTC
@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @tante@tldr.nettime.org If you use GPL snippets and comply with the GPL by publishing the work you incorporated it into, you’ve honored the agreement that gave you those snippets in the first place. Good.
An LLM scraping them all, mashing them together, and regurgitating it out of context does not honor the gift of the code. It’s also a violation of the GPL, which uses copyright to enforce the continued freedom of that code.
GPL licensing the model doesn’t help.
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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-02-24 03:07
@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.