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zx8080today at 5:45 AM1 replyview on HN

> The part where the license says "Don't run this on your server and charge people money for it, or we will sue you"?

A bit offtopic but could re-generation of the project with LLM (with for example prompt "rewrite the <repo> changing every line of code") help protecting from being sued? If yes, then the OS licensing is doomed to fail.


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mariusortoday at 7:25 AM

We had a trial about this if I'm not mistaken. For a piece of software to be declared as not infringing on another, its developers need to use a "clean room" approach when developing it. Giving an LLM a repo to copy is definitely not "clean room".