copyleft
The core mechanism of GPL-family open-source licenses. It requires anyone who distributes a derivative work to release the complete source code under the same license, in contrast to permissive licenses such as MIT and Apache.
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LLM training corpora are mixed with large amounts of code under different licenses, and generated output may inadvertently reproduce snippets of GPL or other copyleft-licensed code.
The BSD license does not require derivative works to be open-sourced, nor does it involve copyleft clauses.
GPL's copyleft clause requires that derivative works also be released under the GPL, giving it an infectious nature.
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GPL's copyleft clause requires that derivative works also be released under the GPL, giving it an infectious nature.
65%UnverifiedLLM training corpora are mixed with large amounts of code under different licenses, and generated output may inadvertently reproduce snippets of GPL or other copyleft-licensed code.
50%UnverifiedThe BSD license does not require derivative works to be open-sourced, nor does it involve copyleft clauses.
50%