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KolmogorovCompyesterday at 5:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

Thanks to the authors for choosing a license that respect users freedom, on top of being an awesome technical project.


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jjiceyesterday at 6:56 PM

While I do like pgrust's license, I do feel like it's kind of wrong to port in such a direct way and change the license. I guess this isn't a fork, but it kind of is? It looks like according to this post [0], they did a Claude Fable + Opus re-write. I know that legally this is seemingly a valid way to do things and avoid copyright, but it feels wrong to me. I don't even necessarily think that my feelings are correct, but standing on the backs of giants and using an LLM to "reimplement" the code (not a clean room implementation) feels like it's it _shouldn't_ be a valid way to avoid copyright or allow for license changes.

Now, I don't know how MIT -> AGPL re-licensing specifics work, but still.

[0] https://malisper.me/postgres-in-rust-regression-suite/

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imhoguyyesterday at 7:57 PM

Does that license protect anything legally? This is written by AI under some initial guidance. Prompts may be protected but the output of unlicensed knowledge model corpus?