db0Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch
raoul[He cloned] another AI editor … covered under the Apache open source license [and] slapped its own made-up closed license … which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.
Who gives a shit, rigth?
Apache explicitly allows this. I don’t get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.
conciselyverboseYeah, pretty bad coverage of that by the article.
Apache isn’t GPL, and it isn’t an oversight that it allows closed source derivative works.
David GerardThey apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I’m still looking for precise wording of the PEL.
It’s very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.
EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.
This is a small technical violation that’s easily remedied, but I understand that’s what got people pissed off.
I’m a little bit in the camp of ‘it might be legal, but that doesn’t mean it is ok’. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going ‘jobs done’ very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a ‘lol, of course they did’ thing. But that is me.
It’s a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes
The way he admitted it was hilarious too
Christopher WoodThat startup founder. Is he okay?
He’s alright but his clone is taking this personally.
Sailor Sega SaturnThe license stuff is whatever, but Imagine seeing this sort of sloppiness in the revision history and thinking “Yeah these guys seem legit let’s give them a million dollars!” We are in such a bubble.
That’s amazing.Do you think they crtl-f’d the name changes or ChatGPT’d them?
founder mode, mate
I endorse this usage, and am now 100% in favour of popularising “founder mode” as a term if we do this
turns out Continue was less than happy with their own backer YC paying another company to take credit for their work
Ex-coiner Y Combinator startup bro: ‘dawg i chatgpt’d the license, can’t be bothered with legal’
Matthew Duke Pan and Nathan Ang got their start at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase — but they pivoted to AI with their fantastic new startup PearAI, making an “AI-powered” code editor. They even g…