@hongminhee@hollo.social
Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz · Reply to Simon Willison's post
@simon Obviously! The source code is: that code required to produce the binary. That code was LGPL. It doesn't matter how many algorithms, nor the nature of the algorithms, it goes through to become those 1s and 0s.
#law #lawfare #computerScience #intellectualProperty #licensing #FOSS #GNU #LGPL #MIT #code #softwareEngineering #LLM #codeWashing
@bkuhn@copyleft.org · Reply to Denver Gingerich's post
@skyfaller, to add to what @ossguy said, I think a #copyleft-@next should clearly state that the 3ʳᵈ party beneficiary right to users is intended. While it was clearly intended by #GPL & #LGPL, we've had to spend 5 years & substantial resources in #SFC's case against #Vizio to adjudicate 3PB under copyleft.
Decades of copyleft litigation has taught me that you really do need to say explicitly in the license text what is obvious to everyone, as bad actors love to be disingenuous.
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A Landmark Victory for Open Source: German Developer Wins Rights to Router Source Code
In a groundbreaking case for software freedom, German developer Sebastian Steck has secured the source code for his AVM FRITZ!Box router, marking a significant win for the GNU LGPL. This legal battle ...
