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Do you have any evidence that it is spitting out licensed code? Did you locate an original that it was copied from?


This seems like it could be the source: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Cauldron/blob/ma...

If true, then this usage could violate its MIT License: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

The file seems to have been copied verbatim, more or less. But without the copyright info


This particular case appears to me to be a straight derivative at best but I'm by no means an expert on copyright laws.

That's not to say there hasn't already been more direct cases with set examples [1], from an author directly who would have a better right to claim than I [2], it's not even a stretch to see how it can happen.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2408.02487v3

[2] https://x.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554


As discussed repeatedly in this thread already in this particular case the code at hand wasn't generated by an LLM at all, it was simply included from a dependency by the build system.




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