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What is to prevent someone from cloning this code, and jumping into claude code and saying: "implement an identical system in Elixir?"

LLMs are great at translation from X programming language to Y programming language.

The Google/Oracle Android/Java lawsuit boiled down to whether Google engineers copied source code, or whether they re-implemented things in a clean room without using prior code, right?

Isn't using an LLM to rebuild something a great loophole for this elastic search license?

I see this being a losing battle because the license is only as strong as your ability to enforce it. Bear is probably in a good position because of their network position, but this seems like a losing battle long term.



What's preventing someone just ignoring the license?




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