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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
(simonwillison.net)
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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Yah but community centric GPL to no copyright is sort of the goal for the recent slop rewrites.
If there is no copyright on the slop output code based on GPL code that’s a win for the corps.