Copyright adaptation literally means billion dollar lawsuits, because copyright only adapts after court decisions.
replyThe BSD licences are not copyleft, or indeed part of the GNU copyright regime.
Yeah, the billion dollar lawsuits that are coming after the trillion dollar ones that are gonna hit the AI industry any day now.
replyCopyright is dead.
>Copyright is dead.
replyI remember hearing that in 1996 too.
How was the LLM training scene in 1996?
replySo long as there's big money interests around copyright, I assure you it will not die. And all the predictions about the knives coming out after the AI bubble pops are spot on.
replyIt took a while for the DMCA to happen after Napster. But it indeed happened, and we all know the saying about history repeating itself.
> It took a while for the DMCA to happen after Napster.
replyBy the time they came for Napster technology had already moved on. I can still download entire albums and movies in minutes 2 decades later. Heck, Usenet is still a bastion of piracy and that's been around for 46 years.
> my personal opinion about copyright _in the FOSS domain_ is that I simply dont care.
replyYou may not care, but if the OS you prefer to run is the defendant in a copyright case, that's likely to impact you in a negative way.
It is amusing to see this point made in a discussion that is notionally about one of the BSDs.
reply"Those that do not learn history" and so forth.