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Total Reciprocity Public License Draft
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Need to come back to this.
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My understanding: this is a whole new class of a license that helps "vibe coding" devs to retains rights/ownership of their code/projects? I mean, crudely put more or less, but anything that's AI assisted in creation should be retained by that user, right?
Then this helps with people building onto projects that's aren't under the same licensing structure?
If I'm not understanding, please assist lol.
License's focus is not vibe coding devs but in general FOSS devs but current GPL licenses doesn't protect them from A.I. scrapping their work. This one I wish will protect their works against non FOSS LLM/A.I. models leeching their work.
Ah ok, even better!
The legal status of AI scraping is not dependent on a specific license.
It's dependent on whether copyright law requires permission from a copyright holder to train AI on their work. This is, as far as I know, not (mostly) a legally settled question yet.
All a license can do is permit things that would otherwise not be permitted. If copyright law doesn't require that kind of permission, then it doesn't matter what the author wrote in the license, they won't be able to successfully sue for copyright infringement.
Meanwhile, if copyright law does require permission from copyright holders for training AI on their works, then the GPL already does what you want to achieve, because then anything generated from such an AI is already a derivative work.