alt Hacker NewsI personally found it really amusing how they weaponized the legal system to DMCA all the claude code source code repositories. Code ingested into the model is not copyrightable, but produced code apparently is when by legal definition computer generated code can not be copyrighted and that's one of their primary arguments in legal cases.
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I wonder if GitHub would rule it a copyright violation if the source code was rewritten by an agent, i.e. copy my answers but change a few words. Legally, if the original source code is copyrighted then an agent rewriting it likely doesn't lose that copyright, but I wonder if GitHub would go through the effort of determining whether it was a derived work.
I guess you'd be assuming that both the original CC code and its ports are computer/AI-generated? As a lawyer, though, I'd still maintain that you wouldn't need much original human input in the CC code to kind of ruin that theory. The threshold for copyright protection isn't that high, really.
I did an interesting spin to avoid it: generated Claude abstracted as a set of PRD style architectural instructions so you can do your claude-code inspired program effortlessly.
There's even a GUI called claudia for a piecemeal extraction with a PRD.
https://github.com/kristopolous/Claudette
I've got a web, rust and tkinter version (for fun) right now just making sure this approach works.
The answer is... Mostly...
Enjoy