AI can clone open-source software in minutes, and that's a problem

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating ...
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It has become easier to reconstruct code with AI, which has destroyed the rule that 'if you copy the code, you take over the license'

In the world of open source software, licenses stipulate the conditions for reusing and modifying source code, but AI could make it easier to reimplement open source code, potentially circumventing ...
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'MALUS' is a service that uses AI to rebuild open-source projects from scratch without copying them, thereby making their licenses independent.

Many open-source software licenses include copyleft clauses that state, 'If you copy the source code to create another software, that software must also be open source.' However, with the spread of AI ...

This AI open-source cloning software shows the gaping hole in code copyright

And the funny thing is, it seems like it's completely legal.
Nature

Open biotechnology: licenses needed

Open biotechnology may be the ideal solution to ensure scientific progress and the realization of the common good, but it has yet to deliver on its promises. In recent years, an impressive number of ...
GitHub

An R package for the extraction of sentiment and sentiment-based plot arcs from text.

The name "Syuzhet" comes from the Russian Formalists Victor Shklovsky and Vladimir Propp who divided narrative into two components, the "fabula" and the "syuzhet." Syuzhet refers to the "device" or ...
GitHub

2026-03-09-is-legal-the-same-as-legitimate-ai-reimplementation-and-the-erosion-of-copyleft.md

When copyleft becomes technically easier to circumvent, does that make it less necessary, or more? I think more. What the GPL protected was not the scarcity of code but the freedom of users. The fact ...