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> we decided that the codebase is not a derivative work that would require carrying forward the GPL license and have decided to release the code under the MIT instead. oh someone wants to get sued.

Given that whatever LLM they're using under the hood is almost certainly trained on the Git source code, even if they didn't also make the Git source code available to the LLMs (which they well may have), and the test code is anyway also copyrighted and GPL-licensed... Good luck, buddies.

This is like me deciding that my AI upscale of INCEPTION which also recuts it in the order suggested by that one Reddit post "isn't a derivative work" just because I say so

Big red flag here: "especially given the pretty massive and widespread architectural changes needed to make the implementation libified and memory safe". "Magnitude of changes" does not affect copyright. If you start from the original it's always a derivative work no matter how much you change it

> "Magnitude of changes" does not affect copyright. If you start from the original it's always a derivative work no matter how much you change it False. BSDi v. AT&T.