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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?; Simon Willison's Weblog, March 5, 2026

 Simon Willison's Weblog ; Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

"Can a model trained on a codebase produce a morally or legally defensible clean-room implementation?"

Posted by Kip Currier, PhD, JD at 6:44 AM No comments:
Labels: agentic AI, AI agents, AI training data, clean-room implementations of code, coding agents, copyright law, derivative works, ethics, fair use, IP, relicensing, reverse engineering
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Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section; Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T); Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
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