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by zozbot234 95 days ago
> You capture the value in your product by ensuring improvements come back to you. The user "pays" by not being able to close the product off.

If clean-room re-engineering a MIT code base starting from a GPL one is legit, then AI has just made that the status quo for everything.

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> If clean-room re-engineering a MIT code base starting from a GPL one is legit, then AI has just made that the status quo for everything.

I agree; this is what I meant by "the value is being captured by someone else".

GPL provides the author with a specific value - you get back improvements. Using AI to launder that IP so that improvements don't have to be upstreamed is effectively capturing the value.