At what point do you say "this has changed so much that it is no longer necessary to abide by the original licence"?
Questions like these are why Imaginary Property is such a horrible quagmire. If you look closely enough, everything is a derivative work, and recent developments with things like LLMs has given this topic prominence. Everyone has absorbed countless amounts of copyrighted material in the course of their education, and can make use of it even if they don't remember the author.
Questions like these are why Imaginary Property is such a horrible quagmire. If you look closely enough, everything is a derivative work, and recent developments with things like LLMs has given this topic prominence. Everyone has absorbed countless amounts of copyrighted material in the course of their education, and can make use of it even if they don't remember the author.