There was a thread on one of the tech communities about CS horror shows, and one of them was a guy telling a story about how Amazon had to completely redesign their smart home printer function to run through some monkeychain cloud pipeline because right before launch because they realized one of the libraries related to CUPS was AGPL, which is a blacklisted license at Amazon.
The kicker was that the library also offered a lifetime corporate license for $100.
Amazon redesigned their entire printing functionality stack to avoid paying $100 (or following AGPL lol).
Did MongoDB really use AI to steal code?
If you use AI anywhere in code, you steal code. Simple as.
WHEN you use AI to create a derivative of a project, in order to be exempt from copyright of that project,
IT IS A DERIVATIVE: it isn’t exempt.
I hope some court upholds this principle, explicitly, soon.
Else the “oh, it’s a copy of your work, therefore you have no right to any license on it” gaslighting of the AI-companies will become the de-facto legal-standard.
No, IANAL, but have looked-into law a few times, through the years, to get understanding of the rules on IP-protected work.
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that Google/Oracle lawsuit settled pretty clearly that apis can be copied and reimplemented freely. this is just that but automated
Thank you: I hadn’t known.
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