Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

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I happened to hear about that instrument from a video from FOSDEM'26: https://youtu.be/9qEtm2zx314

It gives more context, but it really should've been a text article, imo. It talks about history of copyright, and why its application now is kinda broken, at least that was my takeaway.

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