[worble]

They very specifically do not accept AI contributions because there is no way to tell if it's just regurgitating parts of the various Windows source code leaks from over the years ad-hoc, which would be a very costly mistake to make if Microsoft were feeling litigious.

[cwillu]

For reference: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

[cedws]

Tech companies shouldn’t be able have it both ways and say that copyright doesn’t apply to LLM-generated code only when it benefits them.

[bigstrat2003]

And yet, they likely will be able to. The law doesn't have much hold on the rich.

[charcircuit]

That would be something Microsoft would have to prove in court and not that the AI came up with a similar approach on its own. ReactOS never got sued despite its similarity to Window's code.

Also not all Wine code is related to reverse engineering.

[Chaosvex]

On the other hand, it'd be absolutely fascinating to see how that'd play out. The ramifications could be huge.

[hackingonempty]

More reason to ditch C, C++, and C#!

[cwillu]

The language wine is written in is irrelevant, the source is still tainted.