@unnick Yes. For example, the first line of the GPLv3 (after the copyright notice but before the preamble) is a license for the license:

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

(Although the FAQ clarifies that you can in fact create modified versions of the GPL, provided you change the name, remove the preamble, and sufficiently alter the wording of the instructions-for-use at the end and make it not mention GNU.)

@_hic_haec_hoc @neil @david_chisnall

(or call them “general purpose, always-on internet-connected devices with photo and video capabilities”)

That definition also covers any laptop with a webcam, if (like me) the user never turns their laptop off. It is quite difficult to provide an exact definition of what a smartphone is. You could add a “must have a cellular modem requirement”, but there are laptops with cellular modems.

How would you enforce this law anyway? And what about minors constructing their own smartphones (with a 3D printer, a small SBC, a touchscreen, a battery, and a cellular modem, it probably wouldn’t be all that hard to do).

@jiub @sleepyowl @chloetankahhui this reminds me of this dystopian story I read on gnu.org where possessing a debugger was illegal

@cwebber do you have sheep in your field?

@Chloe I use picocom. For example picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 for my USB serial adapter (if it’s an actual serial port it will probably be /dev/ttyS*)

@gavi too late (5-6am)

@willglynn @maddy It would be possible with a serial RAM interface like OMI (which is used on POWER10).

I actually think a serial RAM interface could be a good thing, if it had free firmware. The problem is there’s only one implementation of OMI and it requires proprietary firmware.

@aperture I'd just ignore it if my school did that

@seabass @maddy at least it’s not RISC-V with its rv64imafdcbv_zic64b_zicbom_zicbop_zicboz_ziccamoa_ziccif_zicclsm_ziccrse_zicntr_zicond_zicsr_zifencei_zihintntl_zihintpause_zihpm_zimop_zmmul_za64rs_zaamo_zalrsc_zawrs_zfa_zfhmin_zca_zcb_zcd_zcmop_zba_zbb_zbs_zkt_zvbb_zve32f_zve32x_zve64d_zve64f_zve64x_zvfhmin_zvkb_zvkt_zvl128b_zvl32b_zvl64b_supm

@maddy Sorry, I got it wrong. I reread the Wikipedia article and apparently ARM7EJ-S specifically implements ARM5vTE (but the original ARM7 was ARMv3, which is why I thought it was that)

@maddy ARM7 isn't ARMv7... ARM7EJ-S is ARMv5TE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM7 (edit: originally this post said it was ARMv3, which is true for the original ARM7 but not ARM7EJ-S)

watching this unfold between my friends left me with a feeling that I can only describe as "pride"... or perhaps "the desire to inflict it on others"

@mothcompute @sudo200 could you link those files? I'm interested in learning it (although the only CPUs that can load unsigned microcode that I have are sky/kaby/coffee lake, I'm not sure how much would be applicable to those)

@domi @mothcompute @chfour unfortunately I don't think modern AMD supports cache-as-RAM (PSP does raminit instead)

@admin @civodul

If you can get that code merged, yes, that seems to be the case.

Unless there’s a CLA or copyright assignment, contributors retain copyright and the project maintainers have no special status or rights other than those granted to everyone by the license. It doesn’t really make sense that a project maintainer’s decision to merge a contributor’s LLM-generated code can relicense code written by other people.

Otherwise what would prevent me from, say, forking Linux, merging partially LLM-generated code into my fork, then declaring that all of Linux (or my fork of it, which is almost identical) is now public domain?

@civodul @admin It varies by jurisdiction. In the US, LLM output cannot be copyrighted and is public domain, but in the UK it can be copyrighted and the copyright holder is whoever prompted the LLM (assuming the LLM is not plagiarizing anything, which is questionable).

If it’s “legally significant” (10 lines of code or more), and if these LLM-produced contributions are not clearly identified, then one could consider the whole as public domain, AIUI.

Does that mean that you can make any program (or even any copyrighted work) public domain by adding LLM output to it and not clearly marking it? That can’t be right…

@neil I'd rather have DP alt mode than HDMI alt mode that almost nothing uses (except the PinePhone)

@bearmine @maddy you could try to check if they're listening or just good at predicting what you're interested in by talking about some random thing you're completely uninterested in to see if you start getting ads about it