Perhaps - but an argument might still be made that the result is a derivative work of the original, given that it's produced by feeding the original work throug

Perhaps - but an argument might still be made that the result is a derivative work of the original, given that it's produced by feeding the original work through automated tooling. But either way, deleting the original version from the repo and replacing it with the new version - as opposed to, say, archiving the old version and starting a new repo with the new version - would still be a dick move.