> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software
Key words are:
- permission is [...] granted
- free of charge
- without restriction
- use, copy, …
Then:
> may not be used for the purposes of […]
The license contradicts itself.
> Don't we have to ask for permission before feeding someone's years of work into an AI?
That's the point of an OpenSource license, to give permission.
This kind of stuff makes me think very few people really understand what OpenSource is about. The very same people who will fallback to licenses such as the BSL as soon as people/companies will use the permissions that they gave, and then will complain that "no one wants to pay for the thing i did for free and nobody asked for".
Key words are:
Then:> may not be used for the purposes of […]
The license contradicts itself.
> Don't we have to ask for permission before feeding someone's years of work into an AI?
That's the point of an OpenSource license, to give permission.
This kind of stuff makes me think very few people really understand what OpenSource is about. The very same people who will fallback to licenses such as the BSL as soon as people/companies will use the permissions that they gave, and then will complain that "no one wants to pay for the thing i did for free and nobody asked for".