On: Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents

[squidsoup]

I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.

[Yokohiii → squidsoup]

Currently some act like it is fine to translate a project and change the license.

Recently Casey Muratori said in a adjacent context that the microsoft AI push may be related to the fact that they have a long standing and elaborate codebase. A large historic software company could have advantages to train models. They could provide extra value with their IP.

Now their IP is potentially in their models and accessible to anyone. If they actually train models on their IP, anyone could implement their APIs and slap a GPL license on it.

At that point, things will get very interesting.

[wongarsu → Yokohiii]

A lot of their IP has been leaked over the years anyways. Source code of Windows XP is easily available, and there was the 2022 leak that contained the sources of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana, etc

[Yokohiii → wongarsu]

Yes but it's illegal to replicate it.

A different story if LLMs lift license restrictions.

[dakolli → Yokohiii]

No one is training their models on their closed sourced proprietary code. They own github, why would they need to do this.

[Yokohiii → dakolli]

More is better.

[trumpdong → squidsoup]

They were already quite meaningless since nearly every FOSS copyright owner doesn't sue violators.