However, we currently don’t whether LLM-generated code is libre software yet. Software Freedom Conservancy currently thinks otherwise, the Free Software Foundation is working on it with their lawyers. Whatever the outcome, it seems there will be a huge impact on licensing and perhaps new threats from proprietary software companies.

Copying is not theft: stealing a thing leaves one less left while copying makes one thing more, that’s what copy is for. Example?

I if steal your bicycle, you have to take the bus. But if I just copy it, there’s one for each of us.

(Thanks Nina Paley https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p 😁)