Comment by sippingabonedry

Seems more like clean room RE to me, or general free software stuff. You can't contribute proprietary code to free software, if someone doesn't agree to a license change you have to remove/rewrite their contributions, if you've seen the Windows source code you aren't allowed to contribute to ReactOS (IIRC), etc. LLMs are black boxes with dubious training data and aren't really "you" writing the code directly, so whether you can then license that is questionable. This is especially important for a project like LibreBoot that is trying to liberate machines. The only "easy" solution I see is to abolish copyright, which would be fine. As it is a lot of software is being tainted and the whole world of free software is in danger. It's a shame people gloss over this because they think LLMs are cool or help productivity or whatever. Everything's been irradiated now. Now if someone wants to guarantee a given project had no AI contributions they have to fork a years-old version and likely lose a lot of good non-LLM code in the process. What a waste of time and resources that is. Setting us way back. This needed to be taken way more seriously on day 0.