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rswailtoday at 1:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

The entire basis of the OSS is licensing.

Licensing is dependent on IPR, primarily copyright.

It is very unclear whether the output of an AI tool is subject to copyright.

So if someone uses AI to refactor some code, that refactored code isn't considered a derivative work which means that the refactored source is no longer covered by the copyright, or the license that depends on that.