nomadiclizard t1_iujxwax wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:07 PM

I'm curious which 'permissive' licenses have terms permitting the use of the code as training data in machine learning algorithms. Are we assuming licenses which allow code to be modified/redistributed, also include this right?

What if a commercial for-profit company trains on a lot of copyleft code, then commercialises the result and refuses to release the model? Is that ethical?

elcomet t1_iujync7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:13 PM

> What if a commercial for-profit company trains on a lot of copyleft code, then commercialises the result and refuses to release the model? Is that ethical?

I would assume this is the same as licences which allow to use the code to commercialise software when using it

I_draw_boxes t1_iuk27ck wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:41 PM

Permissive licenses basically allow the user to do anything they want with the code save sue the author.

>What if a commercial for-profit company trains on a lot of copyleft code, then commercialises the result and refuses to release the model?

That probably isn't legal, but copyleft licenses are not permission licenses and are not included in this dataset for that reason.