Re: Openwashing: Please share your views and experiences!

2024-06-07 Thread Michael Pöhn
What are the legalities with open-washing? When a vendor claims that something is "open source" and fails to provide the source code under a FOSS license that sounds like fraudulent advertisement to me. Isn't that illegal, doesn't that enable consumers to sue for compensation in most jurisdicti

Re: GPLed code on github (given the copilot controversy)

2021-07-13 Thread Michael Pöhn
Maybe future versions of GPL could cover this with an extended copyleft clause. I think it would be justified that software like copilot (including their datasets) also get GPL'd if they build on top of GPL source-code. br. Michael On 10.07.21 10:58, marc wrote: Hi The way I understand this