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I have an opinion and I'm curious how folks feel about it:
It is not selfish to use public domain and CC non-share-alike in commercial projects.
Making derivative works is still _making works_. You have every right, and should feel perfectly comfortable with not using works which require you to openly-license your work.
However, it is _scummy_ for a _large company_ to do this, companies which have established vehicles to monetize their work.
I'm aware that this is cognitive dissonance.
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@b4ux1t3@hachyderm.ioAnd also, making works which you DO put out there as share-alike is not inherently bad or selfish or anything.
Anyone who publishes work and simply asks that it's only used to make other share-alike works is still an asset to our society and culture. You're wonderful.
@eltheanine yeah, I doubt this counts as a hot take, but it came up in a conversation at my local café yesterday, and I figured anyone who follows me on here would find it a good discussion topic.
The person I was talking to was basically counting it as cultural erasure.
It was in the context of LLM-based AI products, but we were talking about the general case, too.