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dabedeetoday at 12:07 PM1 replyview on HN

This is an interesting take. I think a critical missing piece from this article is how the use of coding agents will essentially enable the circumvention of copyleft licenses. Some project that was recently posted on HN is already selling this service [1][2]. It rewrites code/modules/projects to less restrictive licenses with no legal enforcement mechanisms. It's the opposite of freeing code.

[1] Malus.sh ; Initially a joke but, in the end, not. You can actually pay for their service.

[2] Your new code is delivered under the MalusCorp-0 License—a proprietary-friendly license with zero attribution requirements, zero copyleft, and zero obligations.


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GorbachevyChasetoday at 12:54 PM

Why would you pay for their service when an AI agent can reproduce that for you? If you’re vibecoding SaaS, you’re not going to make it.