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Open Source in the age of license laundering (discuss.online)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Recently saw a youtube video about a service created to change an open source software license.

  • One agent reads code and gather specs
  • Another agent, without access to the original code, creates equivalent software

In theory this should allow someone to take any open source software and change it's license.

For a large portion of open source likely this is not an issue, because nobody may care for the particular software, but for larger projects I wonder what sort of impact this may have. In particular any open source software where it's authors are making a living from donations or public support.

Has anyone read, or thought, of a way to prevent getting one's code license changed this way?

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

I agree with op. lots of ppl miss key points and have fantasy with ai are on small guys' side. Even with llm with open weight like deepseek, how close non-gov,non-com organisation can replicate results like deepseek? Where do you get enough training data, gpu, power? There's reason why some area like hardware, payment are very hard to dominate by open source svc/prod/solution. Ai is very resources intensive and the need is from labor, capital in old day to labor, capital, hardware, training data. Ai make pay wall taller and stronger. We are fxxx. X.X T.T

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