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luke5441 9 hours ago

No?

1) Someone re-licenses GCC under a non-GPL license.

2) EFF sues them, to stop the behaviour

3) Court tells EFF that they have no standing to sue because LLM generated content has no copyright

Obviously this happening would be in the future after someone translated GCC to Rust with LLMs or something.

olalonde 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Again, it would require an extremely unlikely set of circumstances.

1) All of GCC would have to be LLM generated. If some parts are not, it's sufficient to prevent the re-licensing.

2) That someone would have to prove that all the GCC code was in fact LLM generated. Good luck doing that.

3) A court would have to decide that all the LLM-generated code does in fact fall under public domain, because it involved insufficient human input.

skeledrew 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Someone re-licenses GCC under a non-GPL license.

A pointless act since code is now free. The GPL exists to ensure code freedom in an era when code was expensive. Yes I'm aware that the meaning of "free" is a bit conflated here, but the point stands.