Hi @tindall@cybre.space, just read your thread at https://qoto.org/web/statuses/106500375406792092 and I totally agree.
#GitHub Copilot's models are derivative works (and derived works) of the sources used to calibrate them and thus can violate #copyright (and patents?!) encapsulated in those sources.
I have a question though.
You wrote:
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If you trained it on MPL code, you are in violation of that license.
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What clause are you referring to?
In this days I'm finalizing the #HackingLicense (see http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt ) and I was thinking about this specific problem.
Assuming it could be expressed properly in legalese (without turning the license in a software-only one), I'd be very happy to explicitly impose that any work automatically built out of a covered work would be covered too. If you know a license that impose such terms, I would be eager to learn more about it (MPL is not one... o maybe I'm missing something?)
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courtroom, fantasy; (thread missing CW) software licensing, corporations
@tindall .hg
prosecutor: What is the project's licensing model?
Google employee: It's open-source.
prosecutor: Where is the source code located?
Google employee: The code is in a git repository at android.googlesource.com.. There are instructions for building it on the website at source.android.com..
prosecutor: Very well. Please download the source code onto this laptop and build the project.
Google employee:
prosecutor:
Google employee: *sweating bullets*
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IMPORTANT: We're seeing a large scale attempt to bulk-register bot accounts across the public Matrix network (including captcha bypass) in order to perform spam flood attacks. If you're running a public homeserver please disable open registration, or require email for signups.
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So GitHub copilot… correct me if I’m wrong here: it was trained on open source (including GPLed & AGPLed code?) by *spit* Elon Musk’s OpenAI and now it regurgitates said code and this doesn’t violate the GPL/AGPL because…?
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@aral Whether it does or doesn't produce derivative works in violation of copyleft is being debated. My expectation is that it does, but there is sufficient murkyness introduced by ML that maybe they'll get away with it.
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"What Windows 11 means: We'll be stuck with millions of Windows 10 zombies
Some machines will be left behind despite owners' preferences. Many others will be abandoned because their owners either don't know how, don't care, or refuse to upgrade.".
I will repeat myself, but... If you use Windows anywhere in your infrastructure, you will get hacked.
It's just a question of time.
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The TL;DR is: email is not going away, and it is being used for some important things. So it would be negligent to give up on protecting email, just because we have Signal.
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New blog post: Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/29/202106-yes-we-want-cryptographic-protection-for-email/
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I think I've never been more forcibly struck than today with the realisation that today's Web developers have never used 1980s BASIC systems and just have no awareness that computers used to be things you could both use and program interactively, in the same session.
We've deprived an entire couple generations of children of a basic formative mind-expanding experience of cognitive freedom, and now they're making tools that restrict other people's thought lives and see nothing wrong with that.
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RT @nilocram@twitter.com
La traduzione italiana di [RÉSOLU], la guida all’utilizzo del #softwarelibero per le organizzazioni che lavorano nel campo dell’economia sociale e solidale, completata da #LinuxTrent, ha attraversato le Alpi ed è arrivata su #Framablog: https://framablog.org/2021/06/29/resolu-desormais-en-italien/
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@ekaitz_zarraga @Shamar@qoto.org I haven’t planned JIT compilation, but I’m currently working on the first prototype of my Scheme-like system for RISC-V computers.
It has an assembly-like DSL in it, so it can generate code at runtime. 😄 The language itself is implemented in this DSL so it’ll self-host pretty soon I hope.
(here is the repo for the DSL, check out the examples/*.k files for a quick look
https://www.upyum.com/cgit.cgi/comfy-rv/ )
I’ll definitely check out this huge article, it’ll probable help me a lot!
I've just published a new (and hopefully last) version of the #HackingLicense, a strong #copyleft that should be applicable to to software, contents and database and that includes a conditioned copyright assignment to the licensee.
Compared with the previous versions is way shorter an cleaner.
Any comment is welcome.
http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
NOTE: this version of the Hacking License has NOT been written or analysed by a lawyer expert in Intellectual Property yet. I strongly advise you to NOT use it without proper legal advise.
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RT @madbob@twitter.com
Il ministro dell'economia francese inneggia una migrazione al cloud per la PA, auspicando l'uso di strumenti Microsoft e Google dati in licenza agli operatori francesi.
Gli operatori francesi rispondono che non ci stanno a fare l'help desk degli americani.
https://www.dontkillfrenchtech.fr/
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how to talk to your child about hosting a fediverse instance
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Don’t forget: you are not Mozilla Corporation’s customer, you are Mozilla Corporation’s user.
Mozilla Corporation’s customers are Google and the other surveillance capitalists (like Baidu, etc.) that pay it half a billion dollars every year. For what? For you.
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Why does Mozilla Corporation exist?
Because Google (and Baidu, etc.) pay it ~ $500,000,000 a year
Why do Google (and Baidu, etc.) pay it so much?
Because it gives them access to track you.
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