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Even if these licenses cannot be considered as open source and libre (according to OSI and FSF definitions, the only ones which matter), several licenses prohibiting use of source code to train AI are listed in this repository. Nice initiative.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its literally not open source, you said it yourself. They are all incompatible.

[–] pylapp 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just wanted to share for the common knowledge and the debate as I already saw here some “post open source” and content about rubbish licenses like SSPL or BSL 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alright. Heres an idea I had: Perhaps if in some of the court cases they find chatgpt and others guilty of copyright infringment, then free software licenses like the gpl would forbid nonfree AI automatically, as that would then be a license violation?

[–] pylapp 3 points 1 month ago

Could be interesting. Non-free and current GenAI tools violate copyright, we may consider some evolutions of copyfarleft licenses to forbid such use of source code in these types of tools.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where is that user.... and is their license on the list?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They're busy reposting a chain letter on Facebook that claims to exempt them from an upcoming T&Cs change

[–] pylapp 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't copyleft licenses already anti AI?

[–] pylapp 3 points 1 month ago

Not sure of that, maybe we need some case law or update on existing copyleft licenses. Source code generated with GenAI tool, even if their model have been trained with corpora of copyleft sources, are not (yet) considered as derivative works. What a pitty.