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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:15:43 JST mhoye

   We are all going to feel silly and embarrassed someday for believing that being able to see the text of a program and rules-lawyering about who could copy and paste what text to where was the most important conversation we could have been having about software, freedom and human rights.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:15:41 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @mhoye i think that describes a minority of the conversations about community built software (the least interesting one, as you note)

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:23:07 JST Rich Felker

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     @mcc @mhoye If it could, it already would have, because nearly all FOSS licenses forbid incorporation into LLMs. GPL requires detailed audit trail of changes and informing recipient of their rights. Even most permissive licenses require attribution & preservation of copyright notice.

     The issue is that billionaires are above the law. Not that we're surrendering our ability to stop them through overly permissive licensing.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:23:08 JST mcc

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     @mhoye if software licensing could have prevented "AI", that would have been a huge win, a win with substance. It's just we apparently should have been paying more attention to Audre Lorde

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 23:32:13 JST mhoye

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark That may be, but I still see license files on everything and mentions of human rights in them rarely if ever.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 00:25:08 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @mhoye you won't see those in any of mine because copyright is a tool of and for the capital and the best i can do with it is reject it