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"just like with a compiler"

Nope.

There is an unfortunate lack these days, but a compiler ought (and in days of yore, most certainly did) contain wording in the licence that states the output retains whatever licencing was applicable to the input source. Although, by now, there may be a case for arguing that "it is accepted that the output of a compiler..." [1]

But even then, just because you've compiled some source doesn't mean you have carte blanche over the result - you try freely handing out a newly compiled exe you just made from some proprietary sources you happen to have. Or statically linking your company's code to an library under the (standard) LGPL.

Just because you've passed all the licenced code through an ML meat grinder doesn't mean the all those licences get stripped away, especially if the grinder is spitting out whole organs untouched, except for squeezing out the blood (aka attributions).

[1] However, I'm willing to bet that there are still compilers whose sellers try to impose more restrictions, such as "you can not give this compiled G-code to anyone else to run on their CNC-whatever, they've got to buy the compiler from us as well".

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