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In many timelines, non-copyrightable code in GPL project doesn’t restrict the user’s freedom, since an LLM can easily reimplement the functionality clean-room. AI has brought levels of freedom to users that GNU could never do. Practical levels of freedom, leading to real, positive outcomes. Software is finally free in the real world.

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For certain use cases, probably. For others, no. For example, hardware that uses GNU software must be patchable by users (if it is patchable at all). Hardware running public software can be completely locked down to its users, regardless of how powerful of an LLM the user has access to.

Cleanroom?! What the hell kind of definition of a cleanroom is it when you get to take hundreds of GB of compressed code with you into it?!

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