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Thoughts on the absence of clear license terms regarding content contributed to the Fediverse? For instance, questions and answers on Stack Exchange communities are CC-BY-SA. It would probably be necessary to have this discussion as 1- LLM companies are probably looking at the Fediverse with dollar signs in their eyes and will soon be incentivized to abuse the servers with content scrapers and 2- soon bad instances (and currently already the case with certain apps) will try to monetize content that's being contributed on the Fediverse using ads.
I just find it weird that we never had this discussion around what use of our content is allowed and what is not allowed, and that without my consent someone is going to make money from ads displayed alongside my threads/comments. For big tech you at least have to agree to their terms of service where you give them that consent.
We are not lawyers so we dont know much about licensing. To be honest I doubt that such bad actors would care much how posts are licensed, they are going to scrape it anyway.
Lack of license doesn't mean, "You're free to do whatever you want". Instead, it means "I retain full copyright and don't give anybody any permissions".