• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Of course there are reasons. Maybe you are more concerned with your innovated algorithm being taken up for the benefit of humanity than you are about your ego project getting lots of pull requests.

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      4 days ago

      Pull requests have nothing to do with any of this. Also algorithms can’t be copyrighted nor patterned in the first place so it would not matter.

      You could implant an algorithm in a proprietary code base and some gal could reverse engineer it and publish it as GPL or MIT or whatever and all would be a-ok.

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        3 days ago

        Pull requests have nothing to do with any of this.

        Disagree. That’s exactly the thing you want to receive from these corporations.

        So under GPL, they can use my algorithm, but not my code. So they run it through ChatGTP. What has been gained??

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          3 days ago

          In terms of algorithms, nothing. But you were the one who mentioned algorithms. I am speaking of code in general. I do want for persons to contribute back to the community if they use community sourced code. I don’t think we can trust corporations to be altruistic.

          This all being said in your earlier message you were implying it’s all about ego. I was just saying it is not about ego.

          For me it’s all about community resources and societal enrichment.