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THE LINUX KERNEL WILL SOON BE MIT-LICENSED AND COPYLEFT WILL BE DEAD WITHIN 5 YEARS

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A disagreement in a project licensed under the GPL resulted in a developer reimplementing the project with AI from start to finish. The AI generated a complete clean room implementation with just 1.3% in common code. This scenario signals the end of copyleft. Companies that want to use GPL software will likely rather spend a week reimplementing projects with AI assistance than dealing with the headaches of licensing.