A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
If you study a code base then implement something similar yourself without attribution, there is a good chance that you are doing a form of plagiarism.
In other contexts like academic writing this approach might be considered a pretty clear and uncontroversial case of plagiarism.
There’s no such a word as plagiarism in free licenses nor in copyright laws. One could violate copyrights or patents or not. Copyleft licenses do not forbid what you call plagiarism. If you want to forbid this as well as training LLMs on your code, you need a new type of license. However I’m unsure if such a license could be considered free by FSF or approved by OSI.
If you study a code base then implement something similar yourself without attribution, there is a good chance that you are doing a form of plagiarism.
In other contexts like academic writing this approach might be considered a pretty clear and uncontroversial case of plagiarism.
There’s no such a word as plagiarism in free licenses nor in copyright laws. One could violate copyrights or patents or not. Copyleft licenses do not forbid what you call plagiarism. If you want to forbid this as well as training LLMs on your code, you need a new type of license. However I’m unsure if such a license could be considered free by FSF or approved by OSI.
Plagiarism is a form of copyright infringement if there are substantial similarities.
Open source licenses build on top of intellectual property laws.
Licenses like GPL were made to destroy copyright from the inside