Microsoft has claimed that something like 30% of the code for Windows is AI-generated. (I have not verified that they even said that, maybe that’s totally fake.) Last i checked AI-generated stuff cannot be copyrighted. Does this mean that significant portions of Windows are un-copyrightable, and MacroSlop couldn’t do a damn thing if someone leaked those parts?
And then, reservations about including slop in a software project aside, what could this mean for things like ReactOS? They’ve been careful to avoid including any MS-owned code, but nobody owns slop code.
That’d be true if it was just copypasting GPL code, which is not really true except on very simplistic high level view of “it’s seen GPL code, this it knows to recreate similar code”
Which is same bullshit arguments used against people working on foss products when they’ve worked on related p*opietary solutions before (see windows code/wine for example)
Also I have a controversial take here; GPL is a bullshit proprietary license due to that cancer of a requirement. Any license that limits you in any way using the code you just downloaded is cancer just as any other proprietary code. Obviously it’s working “fine” in the crapitalist world we live in, but it’s still shit