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Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.

Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

#GPL #LGPL #license #opensource #freesoftware

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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

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