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Akronymusyesterday at 3:59 PM1 replyview on HN

I guess I am. I genuinly am just a layperson trying to look at what the law would say, so everything is speculation.


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advaelyesterday at 4:49 PM

If true that would seem to invalidate the entire GPL, but even by that logic, a website (such as chatGPT) distributes javascript that runs the code, and programs like claude code also do so. Again, if you can slip the GPL's requirements through indirection like having your application go phone home to your server to go get the infringing parts, the GPL would essentially unenforceable in... most contexts

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