How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial)
How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial)
- Be a huge company
- Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
- Train AI model on code from your purchase
- Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
- Laught at Stallman and his lifework
- Profit
Let's be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:
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Be a huge company
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Make your employees sign an NDA
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Make your code closed source
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Use GPL code and not give a shit because you're a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team
Larry, is that you?
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7 - AI generate code has no copyright
8 - Windows is now public domain
9 - Insert despicable me meme
Well, time to migrate to codeberg
Tell me more
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Codeberg is an organization that provides a Gitea instance for public use. I think their ToS only allows using their service for free software projects, but you should check that before doing anything with this info.
Gitea is an open source code forge. It is very similar to Github, both by the looks, and because it uses a build automation system (almost?) totally compatible with Github actions. It also has a quite unique feature, repo migrations, that can periodically "import" the git repo, and platform specific things like issues, MRs, releases and such too but only on the initial migration currently. Some use the periodic part for archiving git repos from elsewhere that they have found useful.
Nice bait, I came in here to give you a talking to for the title lmao
Now I'm here to suggest sourcehut if you don't like Codeberg :p
Wait is Github enshittifying already? I thought that was on next year's schedule?
GitHub has began enshittifying since the launch of GitHub Copilot.
That doesn't bypass anything. Though it runs the risk of putting AGPL code in your proprietary app if copilot decides to copy it verbatim - thereby making the whole thing AGPL'd.
Ok, now enforce it. There’s plenty of examples of corps violating software licenses and nothing happens bc a open source project doesn’t have the resources to fight a mega-corp.
No. To bypass GPL you have to be a big company, not respect the GPL (not respecting the law is called risk management) and gain more than what you would owe if someone sues you
Wouldn't AGPL fight that?
Not until somebody challenges it in court and wins...
Actually, Github Copilot litigation trial has done good work so far: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html
A bit out of the loop here, anyone mind giving me a tl;dr ?
Github Copilot.
Context:
GitHub CoPilot is a code-writing AI that had been trained on the projects hosted on GitHub.
The code CoPilot has written is derived from open source projects including GPL ones, however it does not require users to abide by these licenses, thus opening up potential for litigation as it technically infringes on GPL license of the code CoPilot was trained on.