Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

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Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.

Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise […]

Chardet : quand une IA réécrit un logiciel open source en cinq jours et change sa licence - Korben Le développeur Dan Blanchard a utilisé Claude d'Anthropic pour réécrire intégralement chardet, une bibliothèque Python téléchargée 130 millions de fois par ...

#Chardet : quand une #IA réécrit un logiciel #opensource #foss en cinq jours et change sa #licence , sans vergogne de #LGPL à #MIT ...
Vide #juridique total...

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"AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a […]

FFmpeg reicht DMCA-Takedown gegen Rockchip ein Chinesische Halbleiterhersteller wie Allwinner sind dafür bekannt, kreativ mit Lizenzen umzugehen. Jetzt wirft das FFmpeg-Projekt in einem DMCA-Takedown dem SoC-Hersteller Rockchip eklatante Verstöße…

FFmpeg reicht DMCA-Takedown gegen Rockchip ein linuxnews.de/ffmpeg-reich... #ffmpeg #dmca #rockchip #lgpl #linux #linuxnews

FFmpeg reicht DMCA-Takedown gegen Rockchip ein Chinesische Halbleiterhersteller wie Allwinner sind dafür bekannt, kreativ mit Lizenzen umzugehen. Jetzt wirft das FFmpeg-Projekt in einem DMCA-Takedown dem SoC-Hersteller Rockchip eklatante Verstöße gegen die LGPL vor.

Four original co-founders, Zappen AR.

All-time favorite #selfie #LGPL #fossforever

Zappen.co #opensource #foss #augmentedreality #AR #libre #freesoftware #VisualWords #pastec #C++

#2016

Gráfico que muestra diferentes licencias de software libre, incluyendo MIT License, BSD, AGPL, GPL, Apache y LGPL. Algunas están acompañadas por la frase 'Free Software Free as in Freedom', destacando su enfoque en la libertad del usuario

¿Sabías que no todas las licencias de software libre son iguales?

#softwarelibre #culturalibre #licenciaslibres #mitlicense #gpl #lgpl #apache #bsd #agpl

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@bkuhn any advice for choosing #copyleft #licenses for #Rust code?

In a recent thread you mentioned #LGPL and I'm curious about templating.

In my understanding it's not possible for the user to replace just the LGPLd library on their system, so it's effectively the same as #GPL .
I chose #MPL […]

Distributing a library under a license different than its examples Given I have a single repository that contains the following: Library source files, written by myself, which I want distributed under the terms of the MIT license Executable source files, which se...

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#mit #lgpl #dual-license

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Hibernate ORM moves from LGPL to the Apache License The maintainers of the Hibernate suite of projects announced on March 14 that Hibernate ORM, a popular object-relational mapping tool for Java, will be moving from the GNU Lesser General Public Lic…

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#apache #apachelicense #coss #hibernateorm #lgpl #opensource #oss

Is showing software on a trade fair 'distributing' the software? Given I want to write a small GUI for a trade fair with Qt under the LGPL license. I want to distribute neither the software nor the object on which it sits with anyone. I just want visitors to be ...

Is showing software on a trade fair 'distributing' the software? – opensource.stackexch...

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#lgpl #distribution

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A German router maker just got a lesson in copyright law. If your product uses LGPL software, then you really do have to provide *all* the source code for it.

#GPL #LGPL #Copyright #FreeSoftware #germany […]

German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the #LGPL license

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GitHub - kcat/openal-soft: OpenAL Soft is a software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API. OpenAL Soft is a software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API. - kcat/openal-soft

I noticed #openalsoft changed license. The readme still says they use LGPL, but the license text itself is basically changed to a do-whatever-you-want github.com/kcat/openal-... . Is this possible and legal? #opensource #openal #audio #indiedev #IndieGameDev #lgpl #PFFFT

Today's Episode of Bytes: What is the SFC v. Vizio case and why is it important?

#opensource #oss #copyleft #gpl #lgpl

Redict: A New Still-in-Development Redis Fork Redis' new license policy triggers the creation of Redict, a new Redis fork betting on LGPL-3.0-only.

Redict: A New Still-in-Development Redis Fork

#garnet #lgpl #redict #redis

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