Related but not sure how much attention it's getting:
GPL is a dead man walking since you can have any LLM cleanroom a new implementation in a new language from a public spec with verifiable "never looked at the original source" and it can be more permissively-licensed however you wish (MIT, BSD etc).
case in point, check out my current deps on the project I'm currently working on with LLM assist: https://github.com/pmarreck/validate/tree/yolo/deps
"validate" is a project that currently validates over 100 file formats at the byte level; its goal is to validate as many formats as possible, for posterity/all time.
Why did I avoid GPL (which I am normally a fan of) since this is open-source? I have an even-higher-level project I'm working on, implementing automatic light parity protection (which can proactively repair data without a RAID/ZFS setup) which I want to make for sale, whose code will (initially) be private, and which uses this as a dependency (no sense in protecting data that is already corrupted).
Figured I'd give this to the world for free in the meantime. It's already found a bunch of actually-corrupt files in my collection (note that there's still some false-positive risk; I literally released this just yesterday and it's still actively being worked on) including some cherished photos from a Japan trip I took a few years ago that cannot be replaced.
It has Mac, Windows and Linux builds. Check the github actions page.
GPL is a dead man walking since you can have any LLM cleanroom a new implementation in a new language from a public spec with verifiable "never looked at the original source" and it can be more permissively-licensed however you wish (MIT, BSD etc).
case in point, check out my current deps on the project I'm currently working on with LLM assist: https://github.com/pmarreck/validate/tree/yolo/deps
"validate" is a project that currently validates over 100 file formats at the byte level; its goal is to validate as many formats as possible, for posterity/all time.
Why did I avoid GPL (which I am normally a fan of) since this is open-source? I have an even-higher-level project I'm working on, implementing automatic light parity protection (which can proactively repair data without a RAID/ZFS setup) which I want to make for sale, whose code will (initially) be private, and which uses this as a dependency (no sense in protecting data that is already corrupted).
Figured I'd give this to the world for free in the meantime. It's already found a bunch of actually-corrupt files in my collection (note that there's still some false-positive risk; I literally released this just yesterday and it's still actively being worked on) including some cherished photos from a Japan trip I took a few years ago that cannot be replaced.
It has Mac, Windows and Linux builds. Check the github actions page.