The status of generated code is ‘uncopyrightable’, which can be licensed.
Copyright law determines the copyright status and contract law enforces the terms of contracts. They are two separate issues.
If someone licenses you to use their AI generated code and you violate the license agreement, it doesn’t matter that they don’t have a claim under copyright law. They have a claim under contract law due to you violating the terms of the license (which is a contract).
This is a bad move. The GPL license cannot be enforced on AI generated code.
Thats not true. The new article being shoved down lemmy’s throat is not correct. They site court cases and come to bad conclusions
AI generated code cannot be copyrighted, can it? Then it can be relicensed as GPL.
In order to “license” a work, you need to own the copyright.
The status of generated code is ‘uncopyrightable’, which can be licensed.
Copyright law determines the copyright status and contract law enforces the terms of contracts. They are two separate issues.
If someone licenses you to use their AI generated code and you violate the license agreement, it doesn’t matter that they don’t have a claim under copyright law. They have a claim under contract law due to you violating the terms of the license (which is a contract).
The GPL is not a contract.