Oct 14, 2026, 11:36 AM@kbm0 @davidgerard i wonder if that's part of the reason for this change
- Oct 14, 2026, 11:36 AM
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Your weary 'net denizencstanhope@social.coopOct 14, 2026, 11:51 AM@tmw @kbm0 @davidgerard Yeah, I don't know for sure, but considering Linux is basically a corporate project, this change will also provide welcome ambiguity for lawyers that either want to enforce copyright claim on the kernel or deny copyright infringement. The ambiguity will also be useful for lobbyists when arguing for favorable changes to laws, "It's already deeply embedded, and there's no way to tell what was written by what!"
mathewmathew@universeodon.comOct 14, 2026, 2:48 PM@tmw @kbm0 @davidgerard Bingo. We don't even need to wait for that possibility. The US Copyright Office guidance is that you can't get copyright protection for a work that's a mixture of human-created and AI-created material, unless you reveal which parts are AI generated. By making it impossible to do that, the kernel becomes impossible to get US copyright protection on. Which means the GPL can be ignored, and corporations can close off the kernel as they wish.