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I think @rms did a huge error basing what was a hacker¹ movement on the value of freedom alone.
#Freedom (like #Communion) is a totalizant value, a value that can blind people from other important values, so much that it's the foundational value of #Capitalism (much like what #Communion was for #Comunism).
As we can all see that #FreeSoftware lost its political goals, being used much more to reduce human freedom than to increase it (#Google and #Facebook would not exists without exploiting huge amount of developers' work donated as Free Software, much like #GitHub #Copilot / #CopyALot), we should really move to something different.
Years ago I wrote the #HackingLicense ² to this aim, a (network) #copyleft license (and a shrink-wrap contract) that has been used successfully in a couple of projects.
It doesn't forbid commercial use of the covered works and even share the copyright with the users that comply with the license itself, BUT contractually impose a complete reciprocity, as any work that benefit in any way from the covered work must be distributed in the same way.
IOW, if you use my work under the Hacking License, I can use and distribute your work under the same terms. Even if it's a LLM, or a software including its output.
I'm not sure the Hacking License is the best tool to get back freedom, communion and #Curiosity, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
¹ http://www.tesio.it/2020/09/03/not_all_hackers_are_americans.html
² http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
Giacomo Tesio - Not all hackers are... Americans.
www.tesio.itSoon after its release, GitHub #Copylot was caught distributing #GPLv3 code from Quake 3 Arena, with a wrong attribution and permissive MIT-like license. That's why I call it #CopyALot.
For a famous piece of copylefted code tht was recognized, the work of thousands of less known free software developer is going to be included in proprietary products without even the offending developers being aware of the theft.
#LLM "trained" on #OpemSource software can only be used to ethic-wash the practice, so that most of opensource developers won't realize how they are fooled and their work expropriated.
@zacchiro @joeyh@hachyderm.io
Except one that hides to the users the source they are copying, helping them to violate any open-source license that requires proper attribution and, what's worse, any #copyleft imposing reciprocity https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/E5R5lsfXoAQDRkE.mp4
That's why I wrote the #HackingLicense http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt so that when we will be able to prove that #Copilot distributed any work under such license, we will have to assume that #Microsoft accepted the license, that the "models" of #CopyALot are used under its terms and thus all the software that adopted its "suggestions" can be used under its terms too.