Hi all,
The enshittification keeps on going:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/
Can we please disable this in the master repo and every and all fork?
At least we must do so until the legal ramifications have been resolved(*).
(*) It is currently not known what happens when code is copied verbatim
or marginally changed by any LLM and subsequently incorporated in other
projects. This would normally be considered a very clear copyright
violation because it has stripped both copyright notices, attribution
and the license by doing so.
If you want /your/ code to be used, then you are welcome to feed /your/
code into whatever you like. However, we cannot decide the fate of
/other's/ code and have to abide by the license(s) granted to us. We all
are custodians of the code under those (FOSS) licenses and cannot grant
rights we do not own.
There is no reason to think that LLM automated copyright violations
would be allowable or legal. But, we need to wait for a clear precedent
before this issue has been resolved, clarified and settled. Until then,
we need to be cautious and consider LLMs to be extremely problematic.
Cleaning up after the fact, because of stripped copyright and stripped
attribution, will be a nightmare scenario for any project. Better to be
safe than sorry.
--
Greetings Bertho
(disclaimers are disclaimed)
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