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Reproducibility is the New Copyleft: Defining AGI-oriented Reproducible Builds

Copyleft, as implemented in licenses such as the GNU General Public License, was a legal hack that used copyright to guarantee user freedom by tying the availability of source code to every act of distribution. Its normative force rested on an implicit technical premise: that source code and object code stand in a well-defined, humanly auditable, and reproducible relationship. Large language models and, prospectively, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems systematically violate this prem

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Published: 2 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Copyright & IP · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (2 June 2026), “Reproducibility is the New Copyleft: Defining AGI-oriented Reproducible Builds,” evidence record 3252, https://ethics.ai/record/3252 (originally published by arXiv).

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