• grue@lemmy.world
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    39 minutes ago

    The problem is that if it’s not a clean-room/Chinese wall reimplementation, then it isn’t Free Software regardless of what license they try to slap on it. In order for a Free Software license to be valid the person choosing the license has to be the copyright holder to begin with, and if it’s a derivative work of the proprietary original – which it is, if it’s created by feeding the original into an AI – then they aren’t!