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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Andrea Pappacoda

@Foxboron "not copyrightable" doesn't sound like "public domain", but more like "you cannot claim your copyright on it, and cannot slap a license on it". Is that what you mean?