Unless it's illegal in more places, I think they won't care. In my experience, the percentage of free riders in Brazil is higher (due to circumstances, better said).
I can't stop thinking what happened when CASE tools, WYSIWIG, UML, Model Driven Architecture/Development, etc was pushed into devs. I know, it's a different phenomenon (that was a graphical visual push, this keeps the text).
We've had it on code as well. The factory pattern, workflow engines, SOA, lo-code, cloud computing, serverless, a billion different templating engines for js, js the right way, jQuery, not jQuery, SPAs, noSQL, graphQL, micro services, event sourcing and on and on.
Every couple of years there's something that if you aren't using you're apparently doing it wrong.
I think maintaining this AI code is going to turn out to be a nightmare and everyone will tone down on it, not letting agents run off on their, but we'll see.
My rules: if it's a person I interact everyday, private hello (hi, hey) is ok, and answered with equivalent. If we don't interact usually or have never, if I'm the one starting, then it's "Hi, I'm ..., the one responsible for ... We have this case ... etc etc.". I accept anything.
But, anyways, it's just life, don't know why people (even from my generation) are nervous these days.
I suppose Synadia will keep its plan to have NATS (or whatever it intend to call it) with a "business license". And, unless this episode wakes some people up, some damaged has been done (to the project/community).