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  • I think you misunderstood what “viral” mean in that context.

    If a file, under GPL, is added to a project, the whole project becomes dual licensed under the original licence plus GPL, which propagate to the whole project, like a virus. I know comparing it to something like a virus sound derogative, but this is the best way to describe its effect.

    If a file, under MPL, is added to a project, the project do not become MPL, only the added part is. Said project cannot change the MPL licensed part to another licence, but still can build anything it wish using it.

    Globally, a GPL licensed project protects the user more, but also prevent the devs from doing a lot of thing, which MPL does not.

    In the end, this is the devs freedom to chose which licence they wish to publish their code under, not ours.







  • That field is here to allow the support of it, not to make it required everywhere.

    Seatbelts isn’t required everywhere, but car maker won’t make two version of a car, one that support seatbelts, and one that doesn’t. They will make one model, with the required attach points to install a seatbelt, and install an actual seatbelt only on cars that goes somewhere where it is mandatory.

    Here we are in a similar situation. That filed is here to make of possible for OS to support that law, but it doesn’t mean we’ll all have to conform to that law unless you live in a country that have said law.


  • An open source software is, by law, the maintainer’s (which can be an individual, or a group of persons) property. It is said maintainer who has the right to grant you any kind of license over what he owns.

    In the case of an open-source project, that license is very permissive, true, but if you take the time to read any of those, you will always see :

    • A provision indicating that the owners grants that licence within the limits of the applicable laws
    • Sometimes a provision indicating under which juridiction said license is granted. If not, the user local laws are the ones used.

    Source : the fucking law and the fucking licenses. And my friend, which happens to be a lawyer specialized in intellectual property laws.










  • That’s not how LLMs work either.

    An LLM had no knowledge, but has the statically probability of a token to follow another token, and given an overall context it create the statically most likely text.
    To calculate such probability as accurently as possible you need as much examples as possible, to determine how often word A follow word B. Thus the immense datasets required.
    Luckily for us programmers, computer programs are inherently statically similar, which makes LLMs quite good at it.
    Now, the programs it create aren’t perfect, but it allows to write long, boring code fast, and even explain it if you require it to. This way I’ve learned a lot of new things that I wouldn’t have unless I had the time and energy to screw around with my programs (which I wished I had, but don’t), or looked around Open Source programs source code, which would take years to an average human.

    Now there is the problem of the ethic use of AI, which is a whole other aspect. I use only local models, which I run on my own hardware (usually using Ollama, but I’m looking into NPU enabled alternatives).