2026-04-12 18:59 UTC
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-04-13 00:20
Copyleft doesn’t mean it’s not copyrighted. Copyleft is not a legal term. “Copyleft” licenses are _enforced_ through copyright ownership. Did you read the quotes from the copyright office I linked to? I am going to go ahead and trust the copyright office over you on issues of copyrightability.
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@AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 19:20
> they’re simply requiring any code submitted by AI be tagged as such so that the human using the agent is ultimately responsible for any infringing code, instead of allowing that code go undisclosed This makes zero sense, because the article says that this new tagging will replace _the legally binding "Signed-off-by" tag_. Wouldn't that old tag already put that responsibility on the person submitting the code. Also - what will holding the submitter responsible even achieve? If an infringement is detected, the Linux maintainers won't be able to just pass all the blame to the submitter of that code while keeping it in the codebase - they'll have to remove the infringing code regardless of who's responsible for putting it in.