Am Mo 03.08.2026 12:51 schrieb Moritz Angermann via ghc-devs: > A rather extreme take and thought experiment then is: Shouldn’t > copyleft-licensed projects campaign for excessive LLM use in > permissive-licensed projects, while being very strict about LLM use in > their own codebase? This might later open up the claim that > substantial portions of copyleft code ended up in other projects, and > as such those would have to be relicensed under copyleft licenses, if > these claims hold up in court. Therefore, if the idealized goal is to > make every software free software, not using LLMs oneselves but > promoting their use while hoping for favourable legal outcomes seems a > viable although risky strategy.
Right. So now we know why there is so much pushing towards LLMs in various open-source projects: it’s about bringing them under the GPL. Conspiracy theory: here we come. Moritz is in fact a secret agent of Richard Stallman. 😉 People, please don’t dive into such lines of thought. This discussion has already been ten times as long as it should have been. All the best, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
