John

sounds pretty good, but no RSS feed available. Easily forgotten.

crazy discussions going on about the consequences.

The GPL is based on rights from copyRIGHT law. It’s the author’s copyright that allows them to determine how to license it, and the GPL is one of many licenses.

So if something is not able to be copyrighted, then it’s not possible to put a copyright license like the GPL on it. The work is in the public domain, no license at all, different rules about derivative works.

If machines generated works (like code) cannot be copyrighted, then they can’t be licensed. Is the output of an LLM trained on GPL a derivative work, but can’t be copyrighted?

It’s a crazy decision, it’s going to do a lot of weird stuff, at least in the US. It might invalidate a bunch of the IP treaties that the US negotiated with much of the world since 2000.

the only period when it stopped happening much was when the Russians were super-broke and in a friendly period. That went away very soon after the Yeltsin-Putin transition.

The GPL is a license based on copyright. If AI output can’t be copyrighted, then it can’t be licensed, it becomes public domain, which means you can make a derivative, then copyright that under a commercial license.

With no.copyright, stuff gets weird fast.

I guess all that bad code people have been prompting AI to write is public domain, no matter what license they assign to it. Licenses are all based on copyright.

3d necroprintmongers. You keep what you kill and print with it.

that’s only a count of the first tier shawarma shops, it doesn’t count the ones that are located inside another business.

Thankfully I live on Ottawa, where we have 10x more shwarma shops than Lenanon does. 120,000 shops in a city of 1M, that’s 1 for every 8 residents.