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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
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this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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I never thought I would move away from FOSS/AGPL by default. The more I read about this issue, the more I consider providing free services instead of FOSSing. It's a shame.
FOSS is still important and necessary to a degree, for auditability and self-hostability, very important for security and control, even as a conscious/careful user.
Maybe this puts us more towards "pay to free the code" or something, so there is at least some compensation. Won't make verbatim regenerated AGPL to MIT any less hurtful though.
If you publish a free service, at least they're not feeding from your code too.
Tragic.