From d46e986fcf53650b74fb4dfa8531fceddfecf38e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Maciej=20Bar=C4=87?= Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:18:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add two sections to legal ramifications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bug: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/61 Signed-off-by: Maciej Barć --- README.md | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 32b7800..651b74a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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: * "consumer's" concerns: -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.