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		lrvick 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kerne... You only need to feed the docs and tests to an LLM to get a "clean room" re-implementation that can then be relicensed.

Muromec 18 days ago [–]

That wasn't tested legally.

lrvick 18 days ago | [–]

If they actually were decided to be infringements somehow, there are millions of different cases needed already, so it is already past the point of enforcement.

These sorts of things are almost never tested legally and it seems even less likely now.

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