Seems like this is in line with the Software Freedom Conservancy's statement, then? It's up to the individual. If you don't like it, you can just not use it, and if you really don't want others using it, you can just.... fork it like he says?
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That was exactly Linus’ point, especially as their comment came from the context of people debating AI bad/good in the kernel mailing list (which is totally not the place to be having that discussion).
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"Fork off", apparently