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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

[He cloned] another AI editor ... covered under the Apache open source license [and] slapped its own made-up closed license ... which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.

Who gives a shit, rigth?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Apache explicitly allows this. I don't get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I'm still looking for precise wording of the PEL.

It's very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.

EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.

This is a small technical violation that's easily remedied, but I understand that's what got people pissed off.

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