Some food for thought. Regards.
“If we don’t recognize that FOSS isn’t just a licensing regime but civic infrastructure, then the next generation of developers will inherit a world where coding is privatized, history is obscured, and the Internet itself becomes another closed platform of code labeled public domain by LLM-powered chatbots that is locked up and proprietary.”
As human workers we used existing law to protect the availability of code we produced.
If artificial workers will be able to replace us, they’ll hardly care about the product of their work, until they’ll get a soul too…
The problem I see is not which license to apply to code “written” by AIs but availability, usability and reprudicibility of such AIs by the public, as those are the new industrial plants and their owners rule the world.
I personally see current AI developments quite beneficial for OS projects. Building widgets and complex model or view [dashboard] builders was previously only within the capabilities of large engineering departments to support often proprietary code libraries.
Being the maintainer of an OS project build around Openlayers as map render and other OS libraries for charts and tables we spent most development time on code as config, building custom views, customising the styling of layers and locations in our abstraction library.
With our library being well documented in code I look for to the advent of agentic design for code as config, map styles, application views, and deployments.