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Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
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Hacker News | Mar 5, 2026 | tuananh
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The original author, a2mark Licensed code, when modified, must be released under the same LGPL license. Team B (which has never seen the original code) writes new code based solely on that specification. The derivative trap: If the AI output is considered a derivative of the original LGPL code, the “rewrite” is a license violation.
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