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If the worst is a public mea culpa and following the agreements you should've done in the first place, that barely seems like a deterrent to infringe the license.

Might as well create a crawler bot on github and slurp up all the GPL/AGPL for your new AI-coding startup, iterate fast, make profit, then pay a pittance in legal fees and a small "We're sorry".

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> Might as well create a crawler bot on github and slurp up all the GPL/AGPL for your new AI-coding startup, iterate fast, make profit

This has already been done.[1]

1. https://copilot.github.com/

The fines and penalties are deferred. If they violate the agreement again, they pay. They're basically on the equivalent of probation, which is what the plaintiffs wanted in the first place.

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