& now there's YA reason: last week, #GitHub urged the FOSS community to *oppose* important #California legislation that places transparency and consumer rights requirements on deployment of LLM-gen-AI!
GitHub's tactic? Disinformation claiming #FOSS licenses are incompatible with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §22757 and California #SB1000 (which seeks to amend §22757).
Read the analysis: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/
#LLM #AI #copyleft #GPL #Microsoft #law
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@conservancy You have let your dislike of GitHub cloud your reasoning. The current law says "If a covered provider knows that a third-party licensee modified a licensed GenAI system … the covered provider shall revoke the license within 96 hours of discovering the licensee’s action." Terminating the license would mean that the LICENSOR is in breach, because every open source license permits revising code, hence no breach by the licensee to justify termination.
@conservancy The current draft of SB1000, to "fix" that problem, instead requires adding restrictions to open source licenses ("as terms of the license") that are not permitted by either the Four Freedoms or the OSD, that is, to restrict ways in which the software can be modified. Under the proposed law, no license under which the AI model or system has to be licensed can be an open source license. Are either of these situations really the outcome you want?
@conservancy Make no mistake, this statutory provision was drafted as a direct attack on open source licenses. It would be much more beneficial to the open source community to put your effort behind fending off this attack on open source rather than endorsing it