On LLMs, code generation, copyright and its effect on free software & opensource projects and communities. Random rambles and a likely long thread.
If the international judicial consensus converges to conclude that LLM-generated code cannot be copyrighted (and that's an important hypothesis, yet to be completely assessed), what impacts on FLOSS (as code) and its communities can we foresee?
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Didier Raboud
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