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  • The GPL is based on rights from copyRIGHT law. It’s the author’s copyright that allows them to determine how to license it, and the GPL is one of many licenses.

    So if something is not able to be copyrighted, then it’s not possible to put a copyright license like the GPL on it. The work is in the public domain, no license at all, different rules about derivative works.

    If machines generated works (like code) cannot be copyrighted, then they can’t be licensed. Is the output of an LLM trained on GPL a derivative work, but can’t be copyrighted?

    It’s a crazy decision, it’s going to do a lot of weird stuff, at least in the US. It might invalidate a bunch of the IP treaties that the US negotiated with much of the world since 2000.















  • this has been happening for decades in Canadian and other western countries. Canada’s financial sector firms are a c-suite, reserve accounts at the BoC, and a giant pile of services purchased from the US, India, Colombia etc.

    The cancelled digital services tax was the lightest of scratches at the fixing the problems of trade in services.

    All the noise about resources and goods tarrifs? Trade in services is larger, and services are a vastly larger share of the non-trade economy.