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Some thoughts about people's reaction to AI creeping into FOSS projects (fosstodon.org)
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Some thoughts about people's reaction to AI creeping into FOSS projects.blog.davep.org/2026/03/10/you-#foss #ai #programming #llm #agent

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago

@davep There have always been problematic open source and free projects and it has always been legitimate to criticize them, even if you're not currently contributing yourself, but the best criticism is to fork the project and outcompete it.If you can't fork it, it's not open.

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    @davep You seen theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_ as well? Another couple of angles on the whole "teh AIs" thing there. Hadn't thought of the licensing ramifications in too much detail. #ai #llm #development #Programming #licensing

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    @xylophilist Yeah, that one is wild. I’ve got lots of thoughts on that too (tl;db: possibly legally permissible but ethically vile).

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    @davep Whenever I see developers getting uppity about copyright, I find myself thinking about copyright in photography and music.By the sound of it, this JPlag thing seems very cognate with the US legal definition of a photo ceasing to be derivative when folks can no longer recognize the origins.And without Mozart being a naughty boy we wouldn't have access to Allegri's Misereri... and so I stay pretty chill about it all (up until someone rips me off, of course ;)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    @xylophilist Not sure the music example tells me anything, I have zero knowledge of what that means.But the person doing this "AI rewrite" seems to have been clear in the past about the attempt to ignore the wishes of the original copyright holder and they're the current maint' of same project. Seems a straight up betrayal of trust issue to me really.Like I say: probably legally fine, but a dick move.

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