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The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI
Grant Shanklin, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli, Tyler Schroder, Luciano Floridi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12713

The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI
The proliferation of generative AI systems has created new challenges for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, particularly regarding how traditional copyleft principles should apply when open source code is used to train AI models. This article introduces the Contextual Copyleft AI (CCAI) license, a novel licensing mechanism that extends copyleft requirements from training data to the resulting generative AI models. The CCAI license offers significant advantages, including enhan…

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress "on hold", fediverse, content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com…

Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
The head of web publishing company Automattic on the WP Engine and the future of WordPress.

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Boyuan Li, Chengwei Liu, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Zhenlin Zhang, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05270

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Integrating third-party software components is a common practice in modern software development, offering significant advantages in terms of efficiency and innovation. However, this practice is fraught with risks related to software licensing. A lack of understanding may lead to disputes, which can pose serious legal and operational challenges. To these ends, both academia and industry have conducted various investigations and proposed solutions and tools to deal with these challenges. However,…

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress "on hold", fediverse, content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com…

Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
The head of web publishing company Automattic on the WP Engine and the future of WordPress.

It's at least the second time that I see maintainers of "#opensource" be actively and strongly upset that people (as in other free/open source devs, not big corps) actually make use of the licensing terms that they gave to their software.
It's just baffling to me. Is it that people don't understand the implications of the licenses they choose? That they never actually believed in the freedoms they gave but just thought it sounded sexy somehow, wanting to have their cake and eat it too?

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Pratyush Nidhi Sharma, Lauren Wright, Anne Herfurth, Munsif Sokiyna, Pratyaksh Nidhi Sharma, Sethu Das, Mikko Siponen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16853

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Generative AI coding assistants (ACAs) are widely adopted yet pose serious legal and compliance risks. ACAs can generate code governed by restrictive open-source licenses (e.g., GPL), potentially exposing companies to litigation or forced open-sourcing. Few developers are trained in these risks, and legal standards vary globally, especially with outsourcing. Our article introduces DevLicOps, a practical framework that helps IT leaders manage ACA-related licensing risks through governance, incid…