Mastodawn

Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

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

That is one way to launder GPL code I guess?

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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scy Mar 4

@Foxboron lol right, because Claude certainly wasn't trained on GPL code

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Morten Linderud Mar 4

@scy
US court is leaning towards that LLM generated code is fundamentally not copyrightable.

This is a different problem to the moral issues I have with this.

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scy Mar 4

@Foxboron But does "is not copyrightable" mean that "is not a license violation of its input data"? I highly doubt it.

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Morten Linderud Mar 4

@scy
A license violation usually implies that there is a copyright violation to begin with.

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scy Mar 4

@Foxboron Yeah but that's what I mean: Just because the end result is not copyrightable, does that automatically mean that it can't be a copyright violation?

Like, changing the format or medium of something is not a copyrightable work.

So, by that logic, if I take a copyrighted MP3 and convert it to AAC and publish that, my AAC is not copyrightable, but it's not a copyright violation to take it and publish it?

That's what I mean.

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Morten Linderud Mar 4

@scy
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going to try and debate what is and isn't a copyright violation.

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Skyr

@Foxboron @scy chances are high that LLM bros suspect it is, that's why they are cutting deals with Big Music. Unfortunately, there's no global-encompassing multi-billion dollar corporation protecting open-source...