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Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by pmarreck on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:28PM (#47267545)
Because it’s written in an entirely different language, which makes this whole point moot
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Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by sobjornstad on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:45PM (#47268303)
Surely if I took a program written in Python and translated it line for line into JavaScript, that wouldn't allow me to treat it as original work. I don't see how this solves the problem, except very incrementally.
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Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by pmarreck on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:42PM (#47269280)
but it’s not a line for line translation. it is a functionality for functionality translation, and sometimes very differently.
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