@siguza @blinry A de-compiler cannot regenerate completely lost information, such as comments.

@blinry The GNU Emacs OS implements the same functionality - you run M-x find-library to see the source code of any part of the Emacs lisp and M-x find-function to see the C source code.

@xaetacore @jamie Why are you regurgitating corporate propaganda?

Yes, many businesses have a contract that state that the business holds the copyright for anything produced on company time, which is generally held to be valid.

When it comes to things outside of company time, businesses love claiming copyright whether or not it's done on company hardware - if the government was legitimate, they would express that such claims are not valid.

@jamie The employee could easily be pursued under trade secret law, if the source code was considered a trade secret.

@jamie It is not correct that LLM copied software is in the public domain.

The original license(s) applies - this is the case, no matter where the software has been.