[kevincox]

> output and weights are deterministic transformations of the inputs;

That may be true but I fail to see how any process that produces the same content that was input into it somehow strips the license. If the generated code is novel, then there is no copyright and it is just the output of the tool. If the code is a copy, but non-creative (example a trivial function) then it isn't covered by copyright in the source anyways, so the output is not protected by copyright either. However if the output is a copy and creative I don't think it matters how complicated your copying process was. What matters is that the code was copied and you need to obey copyright.

Again, I don't think that novel code generated from being trained on copyrighted code is the problem. I think it is just the verbatim (or minimally transformed) copying that is the issue.