Re: Capy: Request for endorsements
Andrey Semashev via Boost <[email protected]>
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On 18 Feb 2026 11:19, Andrey Semashev wrote: > On 18 Feb 2026 03:17, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote: >> >> The situation here is, you read GPL code, and then you write your own code >> using only the knowledge you've obtained, without reproducing any code >> snippet exactly or approximately (e.g. only changing the identifiers.) >> >> Is your code GPL? > > No, because the license covers the form, not the idea. > > Though, depending on how closely the newly written code resembles the > original, it could be difficult to distinguish this case from just > modifying the original code and forming a derivative work, which would > be covered by GPL. But this ambiguity is not specific to GPL, the same > would be the case with any other license. In relation to AI, it is a tool that operates on tokens (i.e the form), so it is more tempting to classify the code it produces as derivative work. >> That's, incidentally, why I dislike the GPL. It's a trap because it gives you >> the code to read and then claims that you don't have the right to use the >> knowledge so obtained. > > I dislike GPL because it forces people to release their own work under > GPL. IMO, people should be able to decide how their work should be used. > _______________________________________________ Boost mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.boost.org/mailman3/lists/boost.lists.boost.org/ Archived at: https://lists.boost.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NOAGSZFYF423CRT45QDY5EN2Q7KC4S3D/