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Copyleft advocates rework licenses to counter AI-generated code risks

Original: (2/2)… I further am quite confident that we can rework # copyleft licenses to address most of the worst problems that #

Bradley Kuhn, a leading free software lawyer at the Software Freedom Conservancy-affiliated copyleft.org, says he is confident copyleft licenses can be rewritten to address the worst problems that LLM-generated AI code poses for software freedom. He reports working on the effort since around May 2026, describing progress as slow but saying the CopyleftNext project will move forward.

Why now: Developers and free software advocates are actively debating how open-source licenses should handle AI-generated code.

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• (2/2)… I further am quite confident that we can rework # copyleft licenses to address most of the worst problems that # LLMGenAI represents for the future of # SoftwareFreedom . I've been working on itsince ≈2026-05. It's slow going, but I'm confident that # CopyleftNext will… · bkuhn@copyleft.org · 9

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