Been doing a bunch of thinking about LLM code, the (known) uncopyrightability thereof, and the impact that may have on licences and rights holders downstream.

If your open-source project contains LLM code, how does that impact your chosen licence? If you can’t hold copyright on it, can you assert your other rights under the licence model?

What about in a dependency?

I feel like the definitive answer is beyond me right now.

@drunkenmadman short answer: you can’t copyright AI output. However it won’t invalidate a previously copyrighted work. So we can have software that is partly copyright and partly not. Wait for Microsoft to try arguing that in court