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> it also violated the GPL license of DiffusionBee.

Isn't "critic" / "research" / "education" good fair-use cases?




This is creation of derivative art and publishing it in violation of license.

Fair use is violated by the scale of copy-paste involved, and well, none of "critic", "research", or "education" are the uses involved in the release of the derived art. (Writing a paper would fall under "research", iirc)


https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLFairUse

I don't know how small the snippet has to be to be considered fair in court, but it looks like they copied large portion of code.


Whether this counts as that seems like a complex question. Certainly i don't see how this is a critique.




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