Microsoft has claimed that something like 30% of the code for Windows is AI-generated. (I have not verified that they even said that, maybe that’s totally fake.) Last i checked AI-generated stuff cannot be copyrighted. Does this mean that significant portions of Windows are un-copyrightable, and MacroSlop couldn’t do a damn thing if someone leaked those parts?

And then, reservations about including slop in a software project aside, what could this mean for things like ReactOS? They’ve been careful to avoid including any MS-owned code, but nobody owns slop code.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    Also I have a controversial take here; GPL is a bullshit proprietary license due to that cancer of a requirement. Any license that limits you in any way using the code you just downloaded is cancer just as any other proprietary code. Obviously it’s working “fine” in the crapitalist world we live in, but it’s still shit

    You overlook that without a license, you do not have the right to either copy the source code, or copy the binaries, or copy the software.

    It is right that copyright is used by corporations to make further their interests and make more money. But that is not why copyright was invented - it was invented to provide income to writers, artists, musicians, composers, and that was extended to software developers.

    The GPL is not supportive of capitalism in itself - it is more like a hack within the existing legal system that is geared to the interests of corporation. But the copyright law it is based on stems from the social contract to support artists, creators, and inventors.

    And with AI, corporations are trying to undo that contract.

    Things will become interesting since AI seems also capable to decompile binary code to understandable source code. Which would make it possible to re-implement a lot of proprietay interfaces.