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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
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Hacker News | Mar 9, 2026 | dahlia
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AI-assisted reimplementation occupies the same legal ground. Derivative works built on chardet 7. 0 are under no obligation to share their source code. The chardet covering the layer below source code.
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