alt Hacker NewsSo maybe one day we'll see coding agents like Claude Code create and update an ATTRIBUTION.md, citing all the open source projects and their licenses used to generate code in your project?
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theMMaI • today at 12:19 PM
Only if there's a commercial incentive to do so methinks. Just one of the things where I expect a legal catch-up is needed to get companies to do the right thing.
KingOfCoders • today at 1:30 PM
Not as long as all developers add an ATTRIBUTION.md citing all open source projects they read the source for, all companies they worked for and trained them and all Stack Overflow answers they have used for write the code.
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You got it exactly right :) And you can update the attribution.md to have it NOT rely on opensource projects that have been compromised. Imagine asking claude code to write a package/function in the style of a codebase that you care about or force it to ALWAYS rely on some internal packages that you care about. The possibilities are endless when you insert such knobs into models.