Clojurians Log v2

Yikes. > And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. I read this as Linus effectively saying "the end justifies the means".

I wonder if the legal implications in terms of licensing have been debated.

Linux Kernel rewrite to Rust incoming...

I think that has always been Linus's position. That's why he strongly opposes GPLv3 too, as I understand it. With the exception of perhaps a few political opinions, the tech seems to be the number one priority for him.

It's weird, because the Kernel is good, but there's good closed source kernels as well. The open source nature is really what makes Linux unique

If the rewrite is AI-generated then it will weaken its GPL license. With such a highly visible/used project, this could hasten the impact of AI on the whole software IP, open source or not.

I know some argue the rust LLM-rewrite should be considered a derivative work because the LLM was trained on/prompted with the GPL source. But that has yet to be validated in a court.

A court may well decide to uphold "only human-written code can be copyrighted".

http://lwn.net has an article that has analysis around the discussion that lead to the post that Linus did https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1083275/ae9cc8a5222458dc/

Very interesting read. I also didn't know about the sorry with BitKeeper, talk about a rug pull that backfired. If BitKeeper had been smarter they could be huge, but instead created their own free competitor and now are dead.

Apparently it took 10 days for Linus to write a first version of git, a masterful feat. If the bitkeeper story had happened today, a weekend would probably be enough for an LLM to replace it entirely. However since it would not be written by a human being it could not be copyrighted...