Open Source Initiative director says ruling is narrow; underlying license claims remain
1 Sep 20 12:01 PM · 5d ago · 4 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Duane O'Brien, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, stated that the Ninth Circuit's decision answered only a narrow DMCA question and did not decide whether open-source licenses were honored. He emphasized that copyright notice and attribution obligations remain unambiguous in MIT, GPL, and other open-source licenses.
“Nearly every open source license, from MIT to the GPL, is unambiguous about the obligation to keep the copyright notice and attribution intact.”
Duane O'BrienJudge Eric Miller Ninth Circuit judgeDuane O'Brien Open Source Initiative executive directorKaren Sadler Software Freedom Conservancy attorney and executive directorGitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI Defendants in Doe v. GitHub
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When you say can't , you mean it's not feasible. Saying can't would be wrong because bits are just a until of information. An yes. biological reactions are hard to simulate, much of it is due to quantum effects. But now your view needs to explain why they are necessary for cognition. or at least the difficult to simulate bits. if they're just a…
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"Nearly every # OpenSource license, from MIT to the GPL, is unambiguous about the obligation to keep the copyright notice and attribution intact. Developers offered their work to the world on those terms, and anyone who builds on that work, including companies building # AI tools, should honor them.” - @ duane of @ osi in https://…
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Literally not how neural networks work. Learn about gradient descent algorithm. Also, is learning by trial and error somehow not a form of learning?
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It’s a fine, maybe a $1 billion dollar fine at worst You say that like it's not an enormous amount for piracy...
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