add two sections to legal ramifications

Bug: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/61
Signed-off-by: Maciej Barć <xgqt@xgqt.org>
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@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ Could use some help writing this with concrete receipts on environmental, social
LLMs are often trained on, and thus prone to, regurgitate either completely, or in-part, chunks of code that are licensed under terms which have specific legal requirements that a sloperator may not understand or even be aware of when making a contribution. Regardless of this ignorance, it falls to the repo's owner to comply with the terms of any and all licensed code integrated into their project.
### Legal Cases And Law Problems
* [copilot litigations](https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/), [IEEE article explaining how we go here](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generation-ownership)
* [broader lawsuits against AI companies tracker ](https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/11/02/tracker-of-tort-lawsuits-v-ai-companies/)
### License Problems
Legal, copyright and ethic problems arise especially with copyleft licenses such as (A/L)GPL. With the "help" of AI the copyleft code may be "license-washed" very easily.
There are ongoing problems with AI "license-washing" in the FOSS world:
@ -398,11 +405,6 @@ There are ongoing problems with AI "license-washing" in the FOSS world:
* original author's concerns: <https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327>
* "consumer's" concerns: <https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331>
See also:
* [copilot litigations](https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/), [IEEE article explaining how we go here](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generation-ownership)
* [broader lawsuits against AI companies tracker ](https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/11/02/tracker-of-tort-lawsuits-v-ai-companies/)
## Stolen Training Data
AI companies use data from across the web for training their models, most often without the website owners' and users' consent. Big tech companies like Google and Meta are scraping data from the users of major FOSS projects, such as Mastodon, WordPress, and other AcitivityPub-powered and self-hosted software.