Am Mo 03.08.2026 12:51 schrieb Moritz Angermann via ghc-devs:
A rather extreme take and thought experiment then is: Shouldn’t copyleft-licensed projects campaign for excessive LLM use in permissive-licensed projects, while being very strict about LLM use in their own codebase? This might later open up the claim that substantial portions of copyleft code ended up in other projects, and as such those would have to be relicensed under copyleft licenses, if these claims hold up in court. Therefore, if the idealized goal is to make every software free software, not using LLMs oneselves but promoting their use while hoping for favourable legal outcomes seems a viable although risky strategy.
Right. So now we know why there is so much pushing towards LLMs in various open-source projects: it’s about bringing them under the GPL. Conspiracy theory: here we come. Moritz is in fact a secret agent of Richard Stallman. 😉 People, please don’t dive into such lines of thought. This discussion has already been ten times as long as it should have been. All the best, Wolfgang