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Ever since I learned that my open source work was stolen and is being resold to me (laundered through statistical algorithms) without any credit or compensation, I stopped writing open source.

Any copy-left code is basically free to be used in closed source software, as long as it's not a verbatim copy? Count me out.

LLMs are used to subvert the spirit of GPL, if not the letter.

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That's where I'm at as an author of several popular open source libraries.

That's it, they're in maintenance mode and I'm not releasing anything again in the future.

My model used to be to build products and spin off components into generic open source libraries others could use, and some caught on. Now I'm just keeping them for myself or attempting to monetize them somehow.

Coming to about the same conclusion here. Companies are using my AGPLv3 project without following the license already and enforcing the license seems bleak with not much gain for me.

Now they can just copyright-wash it through AI models.

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