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No, GPL still holds even if you transform the source code from one language to another language.
by nairboon 7mo ago
No, GPL still holds even if you transform the source code from one language to another language.
- anilgulecha 7mo agoThat why I carved it out to just the specs. If they can be read as "facts", then the new code is not derived but arrived at with TTD. The thesis I propose is that tests are more akin to facts, or can be stated as facts, and facts are not copyright-able. That's what makes this case interesting.
- nairboon 7mo agoI assumed that "tests" refers to a program too, which in this example is likely GPL. Thus GPL would stick already on the AI-rewrite of GPL test code. If "tests" should mean a proper specification let's say some IETF RFC of a protocol, then that would be different.
- anilgulecha 7mo agoYes, I had not specified in my original comment. But in the SOTA LLM world code/text boundary is so blurry, so as to be non-existent.