GitHub & other LLM-gen-AI Companies Urge You to Misdirect California Legislature on FOSS Licensing!
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Software Freedom Conservancy's Bradley Kühn refutes GitHub and other LLM/gen-AI companies' claims that California's AI Transparency Act (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §22757 and proposed SB 1000 amendments) conflicts with FOSS licensing principles. The core argument: no currently deployed LLM-gen-AI system is actually FOSS, so the claimed conflict is moot. Even hypothetically, permissive licenses like MIT allow additional terms, and the GPL already has built-in termination clauses (GPLv3§12/GPLv2§7) that handle exactly these situations. SB 1000's change from 'revoke' to 'terminate' actually makes the law more GPL-compatible, not less. The post urges readers to contact California legislators in support of the law.
