Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

  • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    If nobody owns the code, then then nobody can enforce the terms of the license it was released under, and free software under the FSF definition becomes impossible. All you have is public domain.

    For example, a company could take the Linux kernel, modify it and distribute it with their gadgets. And they could simply not release the modifications they’ve made, as is required by the GNU Public License. But nobody would be able to do anything about it. Currently, copyright laws allow the people who wrote the Linux kernel to sue the company for breaking the license and violating the authors’ copyrights