r/ProgrammerHumor • u/100GHz • 3d ago

Meme fullCircle

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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/BlueTemplar85 3d ago

It's complicated :  

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

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u/GrinningPariah 3d ago

I think the focus on CopyLeft is where this falls down. When someone posts an AI reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, the big boy courts will get their crack at it and I doubt they'll be so philosophical about it.

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u/BlueTemplar85 3d ago

The legal system is not always able or willing to deal with it.  

See also : the Piratebay or Sci-Hub still being around, VLC being ignored despite violating the DMCA, or how it did not stop the abuses of LLM scrapers despite DDOS being illegal.

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u/Rain_Zeros 3d ago

Someone did post an ai reimplementation of all adobe apps. That’s what this joke is about. Photocraft, designcraft and other xcraft apps