Is it free software?
Is it free software?
Posted Feb 20, 2026 17:58 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Is it free software? by NYKevin
Parent article: The Book of Remind
I think any kind of prohibition on AI training goes against freedom 1: freedom to study how the program works. That seems like exactly what someone is doing by feeding source code into their AI training system. In this case, it's an AI that's studying it to understand how it works rather than a human, but I don't think that makes any real difference. It's still about freedom to study the program. Denying some ways of studying the program violates freedom 1 just as much as denying use of the program to some kinds of users violates freedom 0.
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