Recently saw a youtube video about a service created to change an open source software license.

  • One agent reads code and gather specs
  • Another agent, without access to the original code, creates equivalent software

In theory this should allow someone to take any open source software and change it’s license.

For a large portion of open source likely this is not an issue, because nobody may care for the particular software, but for larger projects I wonder what sort of impact this may have. In particular any open source software where it’s authors are making a living from donations or public support.

Has anyone read, or thought, of a way to prevent getting one’s code license changed this way?

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    that’s the very first thing i thought.

    fuck it, do it on that leaked windows codebase to improve wine.