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The AGPL says that you cannot use a derivative work of the licensed work to operate a server on the internet without releasing the source code of your derivative work. Since the server operator is not distributing the licensed work or any derivative of it, then according to you the AGPL has no legal force and can just be ignored. Ditto no-commercial-use licenses.


Of course nothing applies if there are no derivatives works.

So, once again, the point stands.

It's funny because you can just look at the current legal landscape about how people using these AI models are doing fine.

You can download whatever AI model you want and you aren't going to get in trouble and there are trillions of dollars worth of companies being created.

Yet despite the fear mongering, the government isn't shutting them all down.

The AI companies won. AI is everywhere. And it's not being taken down by the government. Game over.

And this has been obvious for over a year now.




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