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No, the question is, if the GPL'ed code/structure is more or less recovered during inference, would a court rule the result to be covered by the GPL?

I know there was some cases in the past where people swapped licences and changed variablenames,etc but the essential code clearly remained.

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Yeah for sure. But then the question becomes weird: If its binary equal (like asm) but nothing else, will it hold up?

Im quite aware of software patents, i never had to use some software patent scanner in our compliance CI/CD.

So it might be a real issue no one can or does enforce?

A while back I was thinking it wouldn't be enforced, but the entire Craft-clones and REA tools usage explosion kinda hints that disassembling/rebuilding the source is cheap enough that LLM's(ironically) could probably quickly find culprits if you had suspicions about certain apps.

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