Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" library, used Claude to rewrite the entire project's codebase so that he can switch the license from LGPL to MIT.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322
I highly doubt that this is legal, but who the fuck cares these days anyway, right?
If I was a contributor to that project, I'd tell him in no vague words what I think about shit like that. "No bro, it's totally not relicensing your code bro, this is totally new code bro!"
"The test data has also been moved to a separate repo to help prevent any licensing issues"
So you've used the LGPL-licensed tests provided by contributors as a spec for Claude?
And of course Claude wasn't trained on the existing chardet code, nu-uh.
Like, usually when trying to free code from copyright or NDAs, it's an elaborate process, with the authors having to guarantee to never even have looked at the original code.
Did you add "pretend you didn't see the original" to the prompt? lol.
Damn I hope we spend 2027 to 2037 suing the whole LLM industry into the fucking ground.
Every software project built using license-violating training data, every piece of music made by stealing from thousands of artists simultaneously, every picture created by ripping off people who barely have enough to make a living.
Sue them all for copyright violations.
I don't care if we need twice as many lawyers to do that.
Or, option B, abandon copyright altogether. Both works for me.
@scy wird das nicht für WINE total witzig wenn da jemand zeug mit Copilot bastelt das dann ggf. Auch mal die original Windows Repos gesehen hat?
Hm... Ob wohl jemand original Windows Source Code schon aus so einem Helfer gepopelt hat? :D Wenn sie doch angeblich 30% schon mit KI schreiben...
@scy "die da oben" (große corpos) haben halt Copyright immer als hebel genutzt... Jetzt mit diesem KI Müll fällt ihnen das richtig auf die Füße. Einerseits seine Leute zu zwingen mit dem Dreck zu arbeiten. Andererseits kannst du halt alles was du da rein schüttet mit genug Aufwand auch wieder raus ziehen.
Ob das Musik,
Code
Bücher
Bilder
Sind...
Und I'm Prinzip kämpfen die reichen gerade auch untereinander wer sich mehr raus nehmen darf...
> Did you add "pretend you didn't see the original" to the prompt? lol.
Uh, yes, basically, he actually did exactly that.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078
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