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0 pointsFeepingCreature4y ago0 comments

All I can think of is Steve Yegge [1]: "They have no right to do this. Open source does not mean the source is somehow 'open'."

My code is on Github so that people can read it, reuse it and learn from it. "The freedom to study how the program works", as the FSF says. If some of the people reading it are machines, why would that matter?

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-50...

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happymellon4y ago· 1 in thread

Because a lot of this code would be put into closed source software, which is against the licence and would prevent people from exercising the right to study how a program works.

FeepingCreatureOP4y ago

But I don't care if closed source programmers read my GPL code! The freedom to learn is not copyleft. So long as they put independent effort into their work, they're good in my book. Shared knowledge is a vital commons, and I'm honored if I can contribute to it.

Maybe this goes back to that debunked paper that claimed that transformers were only remixing input samples?

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