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by marcus_holmes 101 days ago
If the code has been entirely a product of an LLM, you don't have copyright so you can't license it. Copyright is only applicable to human creativity, so you can only copyright the bit of the product that was created by a human. And all licensing derives from copyright.

There might be a path to this business model via Trade Secrets (you register your source code as a Trade Secret, and sell only binaries).

And, of course, you can still sell support as the paid-for service, which has worked for a lot of people.