▲ 17 ▼ OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub (www.reuters.com) submitted 8 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (6 children) Was self-hosting gitlab or foregejo not an option? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] DrCake@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (3 children) They’ll probably just fork forgejo add some slight “ai agentic” bullshit and market it as their own product. I was going to say hopefully the forgejo licence doesn’t allow that but then again, OpenAI have shown they don’t really care about copyright or anything like that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (2 children) Forgejo is licensed under GPLv3, so I think it isn't possible to do so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 8 months ago Correct me if I wrong, but the GPL has the weakpoint of web distribution in the sense that a backend is not shipped to the client, so you can keep a forked GPL product without publishing back. The AGPL was made for this (and the SSPL (I think) is like any network interface needed should be published too). permalink fedilink source parent [–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 point 7 months ago Probably they'll try that millenary genAI technique... "rewrite this code so it's legally different and license it as I want" permalink fedilink source parent [–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 6 points 8 months ago Those aren’t “agentic” enough. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago It was but then how could they pitch that to investors? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (3 children) They’ll probably just fork forgejo add some slight “ai agentic” bullshit and market it as their own product. I was going to say hopefully the forgejo licence doesn’t allow that but then again, OpenAI have shown they don’t really care about copyright or anything like that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (2 children) Forgejo is licensed under GPLv3, so I think it isn't possible to do so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 8 months ago Correct me if I wrong, but the GPL has the weakpoint of web distribution in the sense that a backend is not shipped to the client, so you can keep a forked GPL product without publishing back. The AGPL was made for this (and the SSPL (I think) is like any network interface needed should be published too). permalink fedilink source parent [–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 point 7 months ago Probably they'll try that millenary genAI technique... "rewrite this code so it's legally different and license it as I want" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago (2 children) Forgejo is licensed under GPLv3, so I think it isn't possible to do so permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 8 months ago Correct me if I wrong, but the GPL has the weakpoint of web distribution in the sense that a backend is not shipped to the client, so you can keep a forked GPL product without publishing back. The AGPL was made for this (and the SSPL (I think) is like any network interface needed should be published too). permalink fedilink source parent [–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 point 7 months ago Probably they'll try that millenary genAI technique... "rewrite this code so it's legally different and license it as I want" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 8 months ago Correct me if I wrong, but the GPL has the weakpoint of web distribution in the sense that a backend is not shipped to the client, so you can keep a forked GPL product without publishing back. The AGPL was made for this (and the SSPL (I think) is like any network interface needed should be published too). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 point 7 months ago Probably they'll try that millenary genAI technique... "rewrite this code so it's legally different and license it as I want" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 6 points 8 months ago Those aren’t “agentic” enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago It was but then how could they pitch that to investors? permalink fedilink source parent