alt Hacker NewsGiven that literally no one is enforcing this it seems like a moral rather than a business decision here no? Isn’t the risk here that your competitors, who have no such moral qualms, are just going to commit all sorts of blatant copyright infringement but it really doesn’t matter because no one is enforcing it?
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nozzlegear • yesterday at 11:09 PM
Who is a competitor for Asahi? What would that even entail?
> Given that literally no one is enforcing this
Presumably Apple's lawyers would enforce it.
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layer8 • today at 12:57 AM
Morals seem like a very good reason to not join those infringers.
I don't see open source as having "competitors". If someone wants to make a fork and use AI to write code (which I also think wouldn't be very useful, as there's no public documentation and everything needs to traced and RE-ed), they are welcome to. We're interested in upstreaming though, which means we need to make sure the origin of code and licence is all compatible and acceptable for mainline, and don't want to infringe on Apple's copyright (which they may enforce on a fork with less strict rules than ours).