Re:No right to relicense this project
by cubefox on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:33AM
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If you let an LLM merely rephrase the codebase, that's like letting it rephrase the Harry Potter novels. Which, I'm pretty sure, would still be considered a copy under copyright law, not an original work, despite not copying any text verbatim.
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Re:No right to relicense this project
by actsasbuffoon on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:44PM
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But what if it didn’t summarize Harry Potter? What if it analyzed Harry Potter and came back with a specification for how to write a compelling story about wizards? And then someone read that spec and wrote a different story about wizards that bears only the most superficial resemblance to Harry Potter in the sense that they’re both compelling stories about wizards?
This is legitimately a very weird case and I have no idea how a court would decide it.