Morten LinderudMar 4

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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Show threadscyMar 4
@Foxboron lol right, because Claude certainly wasn't trained on GPL code
Show threadMorten LinderudMar 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.

Show threadThommyMar 4
@Foxboron @scy hol' up... the *output* isn't copyrightable? That would be awesome if they decided that.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

YUP

copyright is for humans, not automata ―hard or soft.

so, ironically, the prompts are copyrightable but not the output.

so anything you want to copyright should not be prompted into a corporate regurgitation machine, including so-called grammar checkers.

@thomasjwebb @Foxboron @scy

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