• threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’ll play the uniformed devils advocate here:

    1. Is the GPL license enforceable?
    2. And if so, I assume “derivative” will still subjective to some degree. Where do we draw the line between derivative and non-derivative?

    I’m torn about my personal opinion about copyrights and software licensing in general. I think the main problem is the huge power imbalance between people and corporations, not so much the fact a company analyzed a bunch of available data to solve programming problems.

    They don’t copy the data and sell it verbatim to others which would be a legal issue and in my mind also a moral issue, as they don’t add any additional value.

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      4 months ago

      1: yes

      2: Normally derivative works are patched or modified versions of the original. I think the common English meaning would apply & chatGPT et al are fucked. I doubt there is a precedent for this yet.