tanteMar 5

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

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Show threadCassandrichMar 5
@tante And useful fools who claim to be stewards of FOSS are laying the groundwork and arguments for the industry to do this. 🖕 this guy.
Show threadAndrew Wigglesworth
@dalias @tante Non-copyleft licenses like the "MIT licence" are now being used as an active threat to free software.
Mar 5 at 3:13pmTuba
Show threadAslak RaanesMar 5
@ecadre @dalias @tante Even if the original license was MIT, you can't remove the name of the contributors. The license isn't actually the issue here, but that these people don't care about copyright when it suits them.
Show threadAndrew WigglesworthMar 5
@aslakr @dalias @tante OK, so when people "rewrite" GNU and other copy-left software and use permissive licences they are breaking MIT etc licences too.
Show threadkhmMar 6
could have just as well said "public domain." the instrument of the idiocy is not the root cause here so much as the willingness to pretend this process is legitimate

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Show threadCassandrichMar 6
@khm @ecadre @tante Hot take: the "pretending this process is legitimate" of "AI-laundering FOSS to seize and enclose it" and "watching the dissolution of US democracy" are the same thing and the same awful people.