Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)
7 points by gum_wobble | 6 comments
Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.
#copyleft on Hacker News
5 stories tagged copyleft, newest first.
Malus – Clean Room as a Service(malus.sh)
1356 points by microflash | 497 comments
Landing page for Malus, a satirical "Clean Room as a Service" offering AI robots that recreate open source projects to strip license obligations like attribution and copyleft.
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)
541 points by dahlia | 539 comments
Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite(tuananh.net)
361 points by tuananh | 355 comments
A blog post by Tuan-Anh Tran on using AI-assisted rewrites of code to relicense software away from GPL-family licenses.
French court issues damages award for violation of GPL(heathermeeker.com)
844 points by bookstore-romeo | 369 comments
Blog post on Heather Meeker's Copyleft Currents about a French court awarding damages for a violation of the GPL open source license.