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Retr0idyesterday at 12:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is not tractable, because there is nothing stopping me from copy-pasting someone else's project into my own namespace. Under most OSS licenses I have express permission to do so.

If you try to do some kind of dupe-detection, someone can use a lightweight LLM to make superficial changes until it's considered a different project.

Finally, the meatspace status quo is that it is totally acceptable to pay someone to find security bugs in someone else's open-source software, such as the Linux kernel.


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cogman10yesterday at 1:02 PM

> If you try to do some kind of dupe-detection, someone can use a lightweight LLM to make superficial changes until it's considered a different project.

Even if you don't, a lot of source code can be legitimately copied thanks to the GPL/MIT/BSD/etc. I'm allowed to take all of zlib and integrate it into my own project if I so chose.

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NiloCKyesterday at 2:52 PM

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