This. People conflate consumer to user. A user in the sense of GPL is a programmer or technical person whom the software (including source) is intended for.
Not necessarily a “user of an app” but a user of this “suite of source code”.
Except really the whole point is it explicitly and actively makes no distinction. Every random user has 100% of the same rights as any developer or vendor.
At this point they've contributed a reasonably-fair share of open-source code themselves.
No one benefits from locking up 99.999% of all source code, including most of Microsoft's proprietary code and all GPL code.
No one.
When it comes to AI, the only foreseeable outcome to copyright maximalism is that humans will have to waste their time writing the same old shit, over and over, forever less one day [1], because muh copyright!!!1!
reactordev|3 months ago
Not necessarily a “user of an app” but a user of this “suite of source code”.
Brian_K_White|3 months ago
CamperBob2|3 months ago
No one benefits from locking up 99.999% of all source code, including most of Microsoft's proprietary code and all GPL code.
No one.
When it comes to AI, the only foreseeable outcome to copyright maximalism is that humans will have to waste their time writing the same old shit, over and over, forever less one day [1], because muh copyright!!!1!
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Retric|3 months ago
Nahh, AI companies had plenty of money to pay for access they simply chose not to.