alt Hacker News> how many problems that you work on have many existing free solutions but you neglected to use that code and decided to spend days doing it yourself?
Only when the existing free solutions are licensed with something like GPL. Now I can just say, write me a C webserver library similar to mongoose and I get the functionality without the license burden.
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juvoly • today at 2:23 PM
Indeed, no license burden but you get a maintenance burden instead.
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You might as well have ignored or removed the GPL notice. Running it through the LLM laundering gets you a "fork" of unknown origin, questionable quality. You're still potentially open to supply chain issues but the chain is obfuscated.
And you now own full responsibility for maintenance.