Experiments in AI argues that AI-assisted clean-room rewrites can weaken copyleft leverage, using the chardet licensing dispute and tldraw’s decision to keep detailed tests private as examples of open-source projects reacting to easier functional cloning.
The Behavioral Fork: Generative AI, License Erasure, and the Implosion of the Open Source Commons
Experiments in AI argues that AI-assisted clean-room rewrites can weaken copyleft leverage, using the chardet licensing dispute and tldraw's decision to keep detailed tests private as examples of open-source projects reacting to easier functional cloning.
Source: Substack