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voxelghosttoday at 2:35 AM1 replyview on HN

wasnt there a case a while back, where GPL or LGPL code made its way into MIT licensed software via LLM? And they were forced to remove the copyleft code. I dont remember the details though.


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Joel_Mckaytoday at 2:54 AM

Usually what I have seen is someone writes a Perl library, Claude mostly ports it to Python with isomorphic plagiarism, and a bunch of Brogrammers proclaim "AI" magic is real.

The issue is most GPL license fall under contract law, and scraped code can't legally have assigned "copy" rights on an "AI" vector search compaction output.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgYMH6n004

Indeed, these rules obviously don't apply in places like India, Russia, Iran, and China. =3