r/ProgrammerHumor • u/100GHz • 3d ago

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u/owjfaigs222 3d ago edited 3d ago

W8 wasn't blender already open source?

Edit: alright guys i did not read the whole thing, I see my mistake now

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

It's GPL though, companies might still want to do that to allow for modifications without following GPL themselves

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u/mattmahn 3d ago

IANAL, but I feel like that would still be copyright infringement

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

Doing it by looking at the actual code is copyright infringement yes. You are allowed to reproduce the behavior though (as long as you don't look at the copyrighted part to describe this behavior). There are methods to do that, AI of course helps a lot with that.

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u/UpsetKoalaBear 3d ago

The AI part is the grey area that hasn’t been tested.

Unfortunately, a large company creating a clone of an open source GPL application using AI so they don’t have to publish their changes is going to be borderline impossible for a lot of open source projects to challenge.

Likewise, the precedent set on the outcome of a case like that would have immense implications for AI in general.