Ask HN: Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects?
Can LLMs like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude be used to generate an equivalent FOSS project but removed from its licence and authorship? Would this be legal? For example, if a SaaS corporation wanted to modify and sell a service using some AGPL project can they use AI to entirely rewrite that project effectively detaching it from its original creator and ownership? 2 comments on Hacker News.
Can LLMs like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude be used to generate an equivalent FOSS project but removed from its licence and authorship? Would this be legal? For example, if a SaaS corporation wanted to modify and sell a service using some AGPL project can they use AI to entirely rewrite that project effectively detaching it from its original creator and ownership?
Can LLMs like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude be used to generate an equivalent FOSS project but removed from its licence and authorship? Would this be legal? For example, if a SaaS corporation wanted to modify and sell a service using some AGPL project can they use AI to entirely rewrite that project effectively detaching it from its original creator and ownership? 2 comments on Hacker News.
Can LLMs like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude be used to generate an equivalent FOSS project but removed from its licence and authorship? Would this be legal? For example, if a SaaS corporation wanted to modify and sell a service using some AGPL project can they use AI to entirely rewrite that project effectively detaching it from its original creator and ownership?
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