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Nov 17, 2014 at 19:09

I'm going through the process of copyright assignment to the FSF. It's a little tedious but I want to hack on core!

Dec 15, 2022 at 03:53

Thoughtful article on the long term consequences of AI generated art, copyright, the art industry and historical innovations (e.g. the invention of the camera):

AI Art Panic

If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica). It’s all sorta messy right now, so let’s talk about it.

Jun 17, 2021 at 02:48

glibc and gnulib are looking at removing the requirement for FSF copyright assignment, following gcc:

Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation

: Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement

Jun 2, 2021 at 05:15

GCC will no longer require copyright assignment to the FSF! https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/ It's definitely a hurdle (I've done the paperwork in several jobs) so this should really help new/casual contributors.

GCC drops its copyright-assignment requirement

The GCC compiler, like other GNU projects, has long required contributors to complete paperwork [...]

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