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How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial) (szmer.info)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmur@szmer.info to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Be a huge company
Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
Train AI model on code from your purchase
Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
Laught at Stallman and his lifework
Profit

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 1 year ago

While I've been considering the switch, for anyone newly reading this, there is bias. Gitea claims the company they formed will not build enterprise-only features, and exist solely to charge for support contracts. In nearly a year since, this has been true, and Forgeja appears to be a soft fork unless that changes. Plenty of open source companies exist, you may even be posting from one.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Oh fine then. So, just like Micro$oft VSCode and Codium.

I am posting from open-source software built by nonprofit organizations, like Mozilla Firefox. The Linux Kernel seems also to be developed by a legal entity. So, maybe it also counts?

P. S. And yeah, I'm using a distro made by a for-profit company (that one with an X logo but not that one)