

- The GPL requires that derivative works must also be licensed under the GPL.
- LLMs are trained on GPL code.
- LLM output is a derivative work of the training data (especially if it’s asked to replicate one of the works it’s trained on!).
- Therefore, all LLM output is either also GPL, or if it’s also been trained on stuff with conflicting licensing, just straight-up copyright infringement to use at all no matter what.
Laundering copyright is what LLMs do. It is fundamental to how they function, which means that they are a fundamentally illegal technology.




























Games should be required to have reproducible source for all components (client and server) sent to whatever the European equivalent of the Library of Congress is, to be made available in the Public Domain whenever the publisher stops publishing them.