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AENS System (usually November)@aens@transfem.social (2026-09-01 01:03:48)
Okay, so what's to stop a big company from taking GPL-licensed code and:
- Rewriting it with an LLM
- Just kinda ignoring the license and using it on an embedded device where it's really hard to even get at the code running to see that it's being used
- Technically making the source code available but making it extremely impractical to actually access it
- Using it for a bunch of internal stuff 
- Just flagrantly violating the license and figuring they have lawyers and you don't

Like, IDK, I really don't see how the GPL is fundamentally going to stop big companies from using open-source software without contributing to open-source. Meanwhile it definitely stops smaller companies and even just other open-source devs that just prefer different licenses. Am I missing something?