Ars Technica

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.… In doing so, he may ...
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It has become easier to reconstruct code with AI, which has destroyed the rule that 'if you copy the code, you take over the license'

In the world of open source software, licenses stipulate the conditions for reusing and modifying source code, but AI could make it easier to reimplement open source code, potentially circumventing ...