The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

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  • This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable.

    This is a misunderstanding of US Copyright. Here’s a link to the compendium so you can verify for yourself.

    Section 313 says “Although uncopyrightable material, by definition, is not eligible for copyright protection, the Office may register a work that contains uncopyrightable material, provided that the work as a whole contains other material that qualifies as an original work of authorship…”

    This means that LLM created code that’s embedded in a larger work may be registered.

    Section 313.2 says “Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.”

    Meaning that LLM created code CAN be registered as long as an author has some creative input or intervention in the process. I’d posit that herding an LLM system to create the code definitely qualifies as “creative input or intervention”. If someone feels it isn’t then all they need to do is change something, literally anything, and suddenly it becomes a derivative work of an uncopyrighted source and the derivative can then be registered (to a human) and be subject to copyright.

    In short, it’s fine. Take a breath.




  • How can you retain the original logo if you don’t have the right to use their trademarks?

    I’m confused by that as well.

    This feels like a sleazy attempt to find a loop hole in the AGPL language to restrict commercial use.

    That cannot be the case; OnlyOffice has been working with Nextcloud for years to provide interoperability.

    If Only Office doesn’t want people to do this, they could have very easily just chosen a different license from the beginning.

    I don’t believe that “restricting commercial use” is the problem. In this article OnlyOffice has apparently been having problems with Nextcloud pushing past their licensing boundaries and even soliciting OnlyOffice’s customers directly.




  • Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse

    Once there’s enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you’ll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.

    I’m somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven’t already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.

    This isn’t just a US problem either, there’s Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.


  • If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off

    Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.

    As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.

    Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won’t too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.

    I’m not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.