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by aorth 15 days ago
Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?
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Not only is it not copyrightable, it's likely someone else's.

That said, you can still distribute it under a licence, it just means that it's not necessarily enforceable, but that's ultimately for the judge to decide.

Depends on jurisdiction and probably also how it wrote it.

If I say ”make a for loop that prints number 1 to 10” then I would guess it would count as my work even if the AI made the actual edit.

If I said ”build me a calculator app” then probably not count as human work

See Functional Source License at https://fsl.software/ - same idea, different length before becoming MIT license.
At that point, I could get Claude to re-create this project if I wanted to. I wouldn't have to wait ten years[1] until 2036 (which is really stupid in its own right) for 1.0.0 — mainly some AI vibed code — to be reforked into a new project.

I get it's a fun little AI toy project, but that license is just silly for one.

[1] https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/L...

False. I would sue you for copyright infringement if you did this.