Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
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Then what did you mean when you said:
It seems to me like a pretty clear statement.
That I never disputed, I’m not interested about chardet or whatever happened here, I’m interested about your comment that LLM output is always public domain, and if so, whether it could be used to achieve the goal of reimplementing a library so that it achieves the same purpose but isn’t bound by the original license, if you do it without infringing on the copyright of the original work.