It's basically the same thing. What's stopping them from eventually losing interest or the non profit getting hijacked. I personally think the whole thing is a huge waste of money and i can imagine some guys in 50 years will think so too.
With many asterix and footnotes. One of which being that if it literally output the exact code, of course that would be copyright infringement. Something that greatly resembled but with minor changes would be a gray area.
Those kinds of cases, although they do happen, are exceptional. In a typical output that doesn't not line-for-line resemble a single training input, it is considered a new, but non-copyrightable work.
You should be careful about speaking in absolute terms when talking about copyright.
There is nothing that prevents multiple people from owning copyright to identical works. This is also why copyright infringement is such a mess to litigate.
I'd also be interested in knowing why you think code generated by LLMs can't be copyrighted. That's quite a statement.
There's also the problem with copyright law and different jurisdictions.
First, you have to prove it that it produced the copyrighted code. The question is what copyrighted code is in the first place? Literal copy-paste from source is easy but I think 99% of the time this isn't the case.
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