Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
#GPL #LGPL #license #opensource #freesoftware
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
Hong Minhee on Things最近(최근) chardet의 MIT 리라이선싱과 關聯(관련)해서 Redis의 antirez와 Flask의 Armin Ronacher(一名(일명) mitsuhiko)가 이를 擁護(옹호)하는 글을 썼는데, 그에 對(대)한 나름대로의 反論(반론)을 써 봤습니다: 〈
合法(합법)이면 公正(공정)한가: AI 再具顯(재구현)과 카피레프트의 侵蝕(침식)〉(
한글).
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
Hong Minhee on Things