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@traecer @jonny @srvanderplas I think this is unrelated to the question anyways. If AI-generated code is considered a derivative work of some GPLed code, then GPL does apply to it. No need to think about linking code or dependencies. And as you say, courts seem to generally consider AI-generated code as public domain, so I would guess GPL is pretty much unenforcable in this context. I am not a lawyer either though xD

A dear friend of mine had his birthday in November (I drew this in November, don't worry, I'm just late to post it as always). He's a VERY dedicated fan of Sonic. And as a good Dutchman he likes frikandel broodje! Frikandel has been a running joke between us. So when i was brainstorming what to draw for this birthday drawing, I thought 'Whoa! What if I draw him eating frikandel instead of a cake!? I'm so original!!'

@traecer @jonny @srvanderplas Upon further investigation, I see that the FSF considers that a work dynamically linking a GPLed work is covered by GPL. From what I know, this has never been proven in court, and I don't think it would hold up. Sure, once you run the program, there exists a combined work that should be subject to GPL. But this combined work is generated by the user and never distributed, so GPL is never triggered.

@traecer @jonny @srvanderplas It's not really a question about GPL as much as about copyright law. I don't see how just linking a library dynamically constitutes a derivative work if not a part of the library is distributed. And if it's not a derivative work, the license doesn't even come into play. As the licensor, you don't get to decide what constitutes a derivative work. That's for a court to decide.

@traecer @jonny @srvanderplas Oh, look! The following paragraph makes this even more clear: ‘NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".’

@ell1e @traecer @jonny @srvanderplas The isEven example is really funny. xD

Yeah, I mean, if the AI-generated code is a blatant copy of some code in the training data, I don't think there will be much of a doubt that it's a copyright violation.

But when the generated code starts diverging from the source, I think it's a more legally gray area. I would also consider it a copyright violation, but it's not me who needs to be convinced about this. It's judges. And I haven't seen them agree yet.

well well well, another birthday gift that i'm posting half a year late :p this was for a friend i've had for quite a long time! she's been really supportive to me during tough times and i appreciate her a lot for that. :) yet the last time i had hung out with her was in 2021!

Of course, that being the case, we have very few photos together, and this drawing is based on one of them. Now, I must admit I have cheated a little bit here (hope the Pixel Art gods are not reading this...), as i partially traced the original image.

Well, it was a busy season, and drawing figures was too daunting, so to be honest i didn't even try lol. That means that the proportions are pretty much perfect! But i still did the texturing and coloring manually, and did some slight modifications to the original composition.

One of such cases was on her leg. The reference was too blurry and dark, and instead of a leg i was seeing a weird vague shape. I mean, it's not really my fault, those trousers had some garments on the side and made everything super confusing. 😭 After figuring out what it was, i decided to change the shape slightly and make it readable in the drawing.

I do love how the people's shadow on the seats look! I'm not used to making that kind of irregular? random-ish? noisy? dithering (i don't know what the appropriate word is), but it sure worked so well ^^ I also like the style on the faces. I first drew the eyes and all that, but realised that hiding all those details looked way cuter! So that's how i left it. I do not like the colors used on the phone. Too saturated, and a value too similar to that of the background.

Funnily enough, we met again just a few weeks ago (after making the drawing)! But we're so silly we forgot to take a new picture together lolll, guess we'll have to meet again to take a picture for a future 2029 drawing :p

So I started looking for Sonic references and... Bruh, it turns out Sonic's canonical fav dish is chili dog?? WHAT WERE THE CHANCES 😭 So my super original frikandel eating Sonic now looks like an average Sonic with a weird looking chili dog. Anyways... I stuck to it regardless.

I had a lot of trouble getting Sonic's body shape right. Bro has a really weird anatomy... On the first sketch, I was making the body way too fat and the ears extremely long. The body still looks weird, especially on the hip area, but it's definitely an improvement over what I started with. I do like what the eyes look like. I wanted to make the shiny eyes that I sometimes see in anime when a character sees something they like. I think i managed to convey that just fine.

Finally, I like the environment. The globes look colorful yet not too distracting! And the ground is an obvious reference to Green Hills as any Sonic fan would probably recognise. Anyways, I don't think it's my bestest piece work. In fact, my friend said he didn't like it: he *loved* it (I got scared at first too...). So i choose to believe :)