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0 pointssumeno1mo ago0 comments

No real reason to do that, they say Claude Code is written by Claude, which means it has no copyright. Just use the code directly

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williamcotton1mo ago

What about trade secrets, breach of contract, etc, etc?

jpetso1mo ago

Apparently it's possible to download a whole load of books illegally, but still train AI models on them without those getting pulled after you get found out.

The same reasoning may apply here :P

bigbuppo1mo ago

Yeah, but you don't have trillions of dollars of investments riding on your success, so the rules still apply to you.

fsmv1mo ago

Trade secrets once made public don't have any legal protection and I haven't signed any contract with anthropic

dns_snek1mo ago

They published the code on their own, none of that applies.

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