Mastodawn

After the chardet bullshit, I'm seeing a rising trickle of use of the term "clean room re-implementation" referring to "AI" slop output from a prompt to rewrite some open-source code.

It ain't a clean room rewrite; that has a very specific meaning.

We need a new term for this kind of LLM-enabled license-washing. Suggestions?

#AI #LLM #GenAI #slop #LicenseWashing #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #theft #CleanRoom #reimplementation

jbz 6d ago

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The maker used Claude to do a "clean room" reimplantation of Linux drivers to FreeBSD.

Not just the use of AI is concerning but also trivializing license issues.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bSZYNP41xqA

#opnsense #cleanroom #vibecoding #opensource

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Walled Culture Mar 25

Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open source

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/

13 Mar 10

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/building-a-class-100-semiconductor-cleanroom-inside-a-shed/
#Science #Cleanroom #HEPAfilter

Building A Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside A Shed

Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a potential cleanroom for semicondu…

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Hackaday Mar 9

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/building-a-class-100-semiconductor-cleanroom-inside-a-shed/

C.Mar 5

"AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

#FFS.

#AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

Release 7.0.0 · chardet/chardet

Ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. Same package name, same public API — drop-in replacement for chardet 5.x/6.x. Just way faster and more accurate! Highlights: MIT license (previous versi...

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