Programmer Humor

windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product

Is Windows FOSS now?

Ew, no, thank you, I don't want it.

Oh darn, our CEO told us to use LLMs to write all this code, and now the good parts might be used for something that helps people. Not our copyrights!

Ooh, free trash code!

Stick to the GPL licensencing of your code whenever possible and the garbage EEE can't subdue you. (Embrace extend exthinguish.)

If they plagiarize it they kinda ow you the honor.

Hower, plagiarism is still plagiarism, so you better actually write some of your code by hand.

I hope this is tested in court and found to be correct

I had a similar thought. If LLMs and image models do not violate copyright, they could be used to copyright-wash everything.

Just train a model on source code of the company you work for or the copyright protected material you have access to, release that model publicly and then let a friend use it to reproduce the secret, copyright protected work.

Is Windows FOSS now?

Couldn't help but read that title in the voice of the young John Connor, asking "Aren't they our friends now?"

Shouldn't all AI generated code be GPLv3?

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The Al-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

I license my vibe-coded projects with the MIT license, so it's working either way.