Mastodawn

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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Mike Anderson Mar 5

@tante although it's deeply offensive and morally wrong, I don't think that we need panic about open source for this reason. It was always difficult to detect if a company took a copyleft product and parasitised it, and plenty of healthy open source projects have been under MIT-style licenses for decades.

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mcc

@mspcommentary @tante However one reason I put things under MIT licenses was I believed the MIT license would be obeyed. If my only option were to make everything effectively public domain, I'm not sure I would have open sourced so many things.

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Mike Anderson Mar 5

@mcc @tante totally, and I put things under the GPL to try to keep them open. I am horrified, frankly, that the LLMs are openly stealing intellectual property and governments seem to be totally OK with it. I just think that the real strength of open source comes from combining our efforts to make things that we all benefit from.