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Anthropic’s Claude Code source code got leaked. Someone made a fork. The fork reached 32.6K stars and 44.3K forks.

The developer got scared of being sued. Creative solution: they used OpenAI’s Codex to convert the entire codebase from TypeScript to Python.

AI being used to get around copyright. This is going to be a huge debate in the coming years.

It’s not just developer creativity. It’s a new legal question: if AI rewrites code in another language, is that a derivative work or a new one?

The future of software copyright just got a lot more complicated.
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fractalchris · 3d
Crazy
the axiom · 3d
this sounds like the definition of derivative code if I'm the judge
R · 3d
Copyright is fiat and will not survive. You can’t own publicly known information.
G Force G · 3d
Maybe this is the pathway to using Claude for automated murder robots courtesy of the DoW. 💀
neutron · 3d
And when programming languages for these rewrites run out, they’ll use AI to come up with new programming languages to rewrite with. This whole AI thing is just a big circus where the clowns are not funny and the animals are asleep.