2026-04-13 19:05 UTC
First of all, who is going to discover the closed source use of gpl code and create a lawsuit anyway?
Second, the llm ingests the code, and then spits it back out, with maybe a few changes. That is how it benefits from copyleft code while stripping the license.
Maybe a human could do the same thing, but it would take much longer.
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@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-14 01:47
Wait, did you just move the goalposts? I thought the issue we were talking about was open-source developers who use LLM-generated code and unwittingly commit changes that contain allegedly closed-source snippets from the LLM's training data. Now you want to talk about LLM training data that uses open-source code, and then closed-source developers commit changes that contain snippets of GPL code? That's fine. It's a change of topic, but we can talk about that too. Just don't expect what I said before about the previous topic of discussion to apply to the new topic. If we're talking about something different now, I get to say different things. That's how it works.