It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his
salary depends on his not understanding it!—Upton Sinclair,
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got
Licked
We should pursue with equal effort license violations of permissively licensed material no matter what the source. Ignoring it for some while preaching fire and brimstone for others weakens the strength of the argument and the license on which they are founded.
When trying to enforce a license, if it is possible to say “you are doing exactly what you accuse us of doing” it makes it more difficult to prosecute.
While two wrongs don’t make a right, two wrongs will substantially complicate prosecuting just one of them.
I am not arguing about the morality of one or the other… or how insignificant one of them is in comparison to the other.
My issue with just pointing to the LLM is about the integrity and enforceability of open source licenses.
We should pursue with equal effort license violations of permissively licensed material no matter what the source. Ignoring it for some while preaching fire and brimstone for others weakens the strength of the argument and the license on which they are founded.
When trying to enforce a license, if it is possible to say “you are doing exactly what you accuse us of doing” it makes it more difficult to prosecute.
While two wrongs don’t make a right, two wrongs will substantially complicate prosecuting just one of them.
I am not arguing about the morality of one or the other… or how insignificant one of them is in comparison to the other.
My issue with just pointing to the LLM is about the integrity and enforceability of open source licenses.