I think it is time that open source => community source. Where community is NOT corporations making tons of money without royalties. And where community is NOT AI.
As someone said these are fair uses of Open source. But it would not be fair use of Community Open Source.
Many people will reject such an effort for good reason. Open Source is something of great value. But should only Corporations profit from it. Why not the developers, maintainers, etc?
So the question is whether there is some way to retain the benefits and goodness of Open Source while expelling the "Embrace, extend, extinguish" corporations?
It's called the GPL, and it's what Open Source was created afterwards to undermine. It would be nice if people just used it, rather than appealing to spirits to make Open Source into what it explicitly is not.
It is already entirely clear that LLMs have absolutely no permission to use GPL code for something that is being redistributed without full source, before they were even invented. AI companies are arguing fair use, as another top level comment emphasizes, in order to make an end run around any licensing at all. Dithering about coming up with magic words that will make the AI go away, or creating new communities while ignoring the original community around the GPL, is just silly.
As someone said these are fair uses of Open source. But it would not be fair use of Community Open Source.
Many people will reject such an effort for good reason. Open Source is something of great value. But should only Corporations profit from it. Why not the developers, maintainers, etc?
So the question is whether there is some way to retain the benefits and goodness of Open Source while expelling the "Embrace, extend, extinguish" corporations?