Is that not the LLM guy?
Is that not the LLM guy?
Posted May 11, 2026 20:13 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Is that not the LLM guy? by mirabilos
Parent article: killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation
Are you sure? The US Copyright Offfice has said that AI generated works aren't protected by copyright, which basically means public domain. So if a patch is partly AI-generated and partly human-written, and the human contributor wants to use GPL 2.0, then the combined work is GPL plus public domain code. So, legal to distribute under the GPL.
Of course, IANAL.
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