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Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-hume-ai-ceo-licensing-deal-gemini/

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

Vertragsfehler: 75.000 Microsoft-Lizenzen in Hannover vorerst nutzlos
Eine Datenschutzvereinbarung für Microsoft 365 an Schulen in Hannover fiel nicht streng genug aus. Kann die Stadt die Nutzung der Software noch ermöglichen?

The obvious answer is copyleft-type licenses.
(1) Has anybody done legal analysis on that beyond the obvious? I don’t think LLM training on copyleft code has been tested in court yet…? (Even LLM training on more restrictively licensed works seems to be surviving court challenge….)
(2) Are there copyleft licenses (i.e. “derived works must be similarly licensed”) out there that don’t have the Stink of Stallman on them? Or is GPL v3 still just the way to go despite the smell?
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The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather #UnitedStates

The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather
Massive Western heat wave, potential El Niño raise concerns about unpredictable, extreme weather.

Dieses Interview über Imperialismus und Eurozentrismus kann ich sehr empfehlen.
https://www.woz.ch/2604/gegen-alte-gewissheiten/internationa-lismus-ist-kein-luxus-sondern-ein-ueberlebens-mechanismus

Gegen alte Gewissheiten: «Internationa­lismus ist kein Luxus, sondern ein Überlebens­mechanismus»
Die Welt von gestern am Abgrund: Wie lässt sich eine solidarische Vision aufbauen, die sich nicht auf die Seite eines imperialistischen Lagers schlägt, sondern auf Befreiung von unten setzt? Ein Gespräch mit der britisch-syrischen Autorin Leila al-Shami und dem ukrainischen Sozialisten Oleksandr Kyselov.

Rams' Davante Adams aims for first Super Bowl after losing previous four NFC title games: 'We just got to finish it off' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-davante-adams-aims-for-first-super-…

OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218

Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/19/beef-lamb-legumes-eu-subsidies-study

After my repeated posts / boosts arguing that in OSS we’ve overemphasized licenses and underemphasized community, governance, and sustainability…I actually have a license question:
What’s the current thinking on licenses that lay the legal groundwork for action against people using OSS source code for LLM training without seeking permission or offering compensation?
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Foodrise Reveals: EU Spends Hundreds of Times More Subsidies on High-Emissions Beef and Dairy Than Legumes and Nuts https://vegconomist.com/agriculture-agribusiness/foodrise-reveals…

Foodrise Reveals: EU Spends Hundreds of Times More Subsidies on High-Emissions Beef and Dairy Than Legumes and Nuts - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Foodrise, a charity working to transform the food system, today released new figures revealing that high-emissions beef and lamb received an estimated 580