I think AI will render software licenses and copyright irrelevant long before a hypothetical evil GPL-4 gets released.

Most new (corporate-sponsored!) software is already under permissive licenses anyway.

True.. my hope is that open weight models will progress to the point where they become viable coding agents for normies, so that even if open source dies with copyright, we will still nonetheless see a renaissance in people controlling their own computers, being able to create their own programs to solve their own problems. HyperCard on steroids, that anybody can use with no technical background. We're not there yet even for frontier models, but maybe in a few more years..

If any AI's will be sued into oblivion from Copyright holders until the bubble collapses into itself due to LLM rot over time due to the lack of curated human input.