I seem to glean that most of you who do use GenAI coding assistants appear to prefer Claude, even those of you who work professionally in free and open source software.

How does your organisation look upon this...

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.md

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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflo...

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... in combination with the fact that https://claude.ai/install.sh installs an opaque binary from a Google Storage bucket and executes it?

To clarify what I mean: the vendor has chosen not to put its software under a copyleft license, which means they have not undertaken a legal obligation to give you source code that matches your binary.

They're also not giving you a means to verify the binary that's in that Google Storage bucket, except using a checksum that is *also* in that bucket. So it would seem like you have no way to tell that the software in the binary has anything to do with the code in the repo.

What am I missing/misunderstanding?

@xahteiwi The hope is to transition to opencode.

But for many, it's just work, not a conscious decision. When you're typing on your Mac or Windows machine, it barely matters.

Plus, nobody can in any way audit the LLM itself. There are no true Open Source ones (and don't get me started on OSAID). So again, it barely matters.

It gets constrained in VMs and containers and treated like a third party.