Mastodawn

Made the mistake of reading the Mark Pilgrim GitHub thread first thing this morning and now I’m in a terrible mood

This issue has it all!
- Original copyright holder makes a straightforward claim of violation
- Sloppers try to defend it using the Oracle v Google ruling
- Armin “Plausibly Deniable” Ronacher shows up to do nothing but sow doubt
- Maintainer in question replies with a response obviously written by Claude, saying he instructed Claude not to reference any copyrighted code

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

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Just… fuck you, dude

“I then started in an empty repository with no access to the old source tree, and explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code.”

idk, it’s just baffling to me that a professional software developer who’s been maintaining a project for over a decade can so fundamentally misunderstand what LLMs do

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Alex Russell

@sstephenson ...or how copyright works, or how communities work, or how OSS functions, or how LLMs are trained.

I'm pretty used to software people getting waaaaay over their skis in other domains, but this...*phew*.