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title: "GitHub & other LLM-gen-AI Companies Urge You to Misdirect California Legislature on FOSS Licensing!"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-other-llm-gen-ai-companies-urge-you-to-misdirect-california-legislature-on-foss-licensing--qw7jwljbg
source_url: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license
type: article
source: "Software Freedom Conservancy"
published: 2026-07-03T20:11:09.230Z
updated: 2026-07-03T20:34:38.941Z
tags: ["github", "llm"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# GitHub & other LLM-gen-AI Companies Urge You to Misdirect California Legislature on FOSS Licensing!

**[Software Freedom Conservancy](https://daily.dev/sources/sfconservancy)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

## Full article

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