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Re:Open Source Security at Astral by trollbridge on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:16PM (#47707367)
And at this point, it appears running code through an LLM to translate it eliminates copyright (and thus the licence), so $Anycorp can use it.

Our stuff is AGPL3 licenced and if this present trend continues we might just switch to MIT so at least the little guys can take advantage of it the way the big guys can.

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Re:Open Source Security at Astral by MidnightRider39 on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:14PM (#47712378)
I think the whitewashing of code through LLMs is still unproven if it actually works for a reasonably complex project and also it’s still kind of legal Wild West - I think no one knows for sure how it will work out.
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Re:Open Source Security at Astral by lrvick on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:01AM (#47715394)
There are piles of examples of it working for complex projects and libraries now especially if they have good test suites your clone can pass.

Also they are even getting quite good at reverse engineering binaries.

Anything not released as FOSS, will have a FOSS copy made.

There is no moat and the reign of restrictive licenses on software is effectively over.

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Re:Open Source Security at Astral by MidnightRider39 on Friday April 10, 2026 @08:11AM (#47716889)
Can you share any of these examples? I haven’t been able to find any…
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