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Comment by jdswain

14 days ago

Not a lawyer, but I'd expect that decompilation creates a derived work which is still subject to the copyright of the original.

If you engineer a clean room process, it does not. Already proven with an open source project that went from GPL to MIT via clean room (chardet).

  • Exactly this. Using an LLM to study the decompiled output then another LLM to implement an emulator/engine/etc

    That sounds similar to how LLMs have been trained on GPL code and yet output is not (yet) considered derivative work