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Comment by g-b-r | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]g-b-r · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:46 UTC · link
Is it unenforceable to check that a company openly all in on AI is releasing all the source code of their products?
[−]rvz · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:58 UTC · link
They don't have to release anything and most of these companies don't care about openly violating the license terms even if they are caught.

Unless the license holder has a lot of money for litigation, it is unenforceable.

[−]g-b-r · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:14 UTC · link
They don't "have" because they have more money?

You're free to take that bet, we'll see.

[−]rvz · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:07 UTC · link
> They don't "have" because they have more money?

My point is, if you don't have a lot of money to start litigating against the violations, the opportunists don't care and will continue to trample all over your "free and open source" software.

It not enforceable without a lot of money and the opportunists know that.

> You're free to take that bet, we'll see.

There is nothing to bet here. Truth Social is a clone of Mastodon (AGPLv3) and all they did was disclose the vanilla source code and not the modifications which that is required by the license. [0]

The same happened with Revolt (AGPLv3) and Andrew Tate's platform [1] and they never released any of the source code at all, nor could the developer enforce anything. [1]

[0] https://help.truthsocial.com/legal/open-source/

[1] https://insrt.uk/post/andrew-tate-stealing-software-revolt/