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phpnodetoday at 2:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

The other day I had an agent write a parser for a niche query language which I will not name. There are a few open source implementations of this language on github, but none of them are in my target language and none of them are PEGs. The agent wrote a near perfect implementation of this query language in a PEG. I know that it looked at the implementations that were on github, because I told it to, yet the result is nothing like them. It just used them as a reference. Would and should this be a licensing issue (if they weren't MIT)?


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fsmvtoday at 5:03 AM

It would be nice to give them some kind of attribution in the readme or something since you know which projects you referenced

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Guvantetoday at 4:32 AM

No one knows until a law about it is written.

You could postulate based on judicial rulings but unless those are binding you are effectively hypothesizing.