Surprising absolutely no one. What is newsworthy about a copyright holder DMCAing copyright infringement?
Not surprising but surely newsworthy:
That they also seem to dmca the forks which were GenAI based rewrites, creating a precedence that this is, in fact, not enough to no longer have copyright applied - an argument that both anthropic and Microsoft/GitHub used in the past.
Now that would be an interesting development for them to actually argue - which they wont.
Oh but that happened already! And is still ongoing.
For a long article about it, Wikipedia has us covered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_and_copyright
The very first litigation, Doe v. GitHub, Inc. is about training on copyrighted material but they’re touching on the copyright of output as well and connection to DMCA 1202. The leak pushed GitHub and anthropic - and by proxy Microsoft and OPEN AI - hopefully in a lose/lose situation. Although the lawsuits are already taking years and I would be at least as shocked as I’m cynical if the whole fiasco ended in a “rules for thee but not for me” situation - again.
I am surprised that Github even allows you to create a public fork of a repo with an all-rights-reserved License.md. I would have actually expected that UI element to be disabled or restrict it to a private fork.
You want open source, people, work on open source. “Code available” software is better than fully proprietary, sure, you can inspect it if you want, but ffs, don’t give them your development time.
Wow, it sure would suck if someone used Github to copy all of your code with no regard for the licensing and use it to try to disconnect you from the people who use your projects. I can’t imagine what that would feel like.
Good that I cloned it locally a few days ago. I will probably never or look at use it, after I saw thr key features in some articles.
There are actual open-source alternatives if you want to do more than just inspect “code available” claude code. For example, https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider
Crazy how many people have contributed even though it’s not open source
