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Open source license that doesn’t allow your code to be used for AI data training? (feddit.online)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Does a license like this exist?

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Freedom 1 of the four software freedoms is:

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Right, but I don't see a 'and you can feed it to a neural network on demand such that it can reproduce code that a user can then have plausible deniability that it was licensed on a certain way and be able to redistribute it under an incompatible license"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Free software licenses generally don't restrict what kind of study or what kind of changes you can make. A lot of licences explicitly say "for any purpose". There are licences that add additional restrictions, for example restricting the field of use to non-military, but they are not free software licenses.

    ETA: the question of where liability lies for infringing terms of a source license occur should a LLM model launder for example GPL code into a propriety code base is something that will have to be decided by the courts.

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