Comment by noobermin
6 days ago
Tbf the dismissal of the IP argument is a bit disappointing. Just because you don't respect IP doesn't mean we all do. Some of the code I'm proudest of I'm considering never open sourcing now because I simply don't trust online repositories anymore. Granted I'm in a bit of a different field than most developers but still, open source as a concept seems less attractive in the wake of tools that scrape it and copy it automatically without attribution. Count me out from ever sharing my code ever again.
I used to believe in the stereotypical copyleft anti IP ethos. In the modern day of corporate LLMs and disrespectful scraping, the lay of the ground is different and people understandably should be less inclined to open source their code.
This is also one of my predictions. LLM scrapers have made me add the "no derivatives" descriptor to the default CC license I publish all of my writing and side-projects under (for now, CC considers ND a valid legal defense against LLM scraping).
I still do stuff in the hopes of it benefitting anyone - but not parasitic oligarchs who are responsible for the imminent destruction of the world and society.
I don't know if a reasonable number of spare-time creators, authors, artists etc. feel similar about these things, but if they do, I'd expect a lot more content under non-free licenses in the future, that might've been published openly otherwise.