MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

@nextgraph But is it true cleanrooming, when the LLM used was created by ingesting large amounts of copyrighted code, likely including the open-source project being recreated? Expect lawsuits around this.
@nextgraph @janvlug And here’s another example:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/

I foresee a tactic of mirroring code to a location ai scrapers _will_ ingest it, then use that as a deterrent for ai “clean rooming”, your license will become safe, only if you first handover everything to the beast.
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implementation of code. The most famous version …

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