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GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo
- verdverm 6mo agoToo late, people already have it locally, it will show up on other source forges if GitHub bends to their will. If you expose your source, that's on you, no take backsies
- GandalfHN 6mo ago[flagged]
- badgersnake 6mo agoSeems fair, as long as they also DMCA all the infringing code people have used Claude to generate.
- sva_ 6mo agoCopyright for me but not for thee
- bestouff 6mo agoThis is "private conflict resolution" for you.
- OJFord 6mo agoThis is GitHub being overzealous/getting it wrong, or some miscommunication somewhere. These are forks of Anthropic's open source repo on GitHub, CEO said previously it's not them DMCAing forks of it. Edit: sorry, not CEO, Boris Cherny (CC head): https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039426466094731289 https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039426466094731289
- andyjohnson0 6mo agoIt works if you invert it too: "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” - Óscar Benavides
- _pdp_ 6mo agoWhat's the point? Anthropic can simply play it cool and, I don't know, open source the thing? It is not like claude code is that complex and interesting. Sure there are some questionable stuff in there but it is not that controversial.
- hmry 6mo agoThe most controversial part is that they wrote a TUI in ReactJS, but they don't try to keep that part secret, they brag about it. :^)
- 0x3f 6mo agoYeah as much as I avoid OpenAI for [reasons], the Rust TUI was really the move. Claude Code is a mess.
- khalic 6mo agoSome are stuck in 2010s, where people thought that JS was turning into a lingua franca. As usual, such delusions are costing us some pretty heavy price. People seem to now accept crappy, laggy UIs "because it makes business sense", completely ignoring that their business _is_ providing a seamless experience. ugh sorry, </rantmode>
- occz 6mo agoI think the reason behind using React and JavaScript is simpler - these tools are heavily vibecoded, and React/JavaScript is what was most present in the training data and as such is what the models excels the most at generating. The crappy laggy UIs have the same root cause - heavy use of vibecoding with lackluster quality processes
- khalic 6mo agovibe coding is barely a year old, this trend is older
- robotswantdata 6mo agoAnthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**
- nslsm 6mo agoYou are comparing Anthropic obtaining public data from the Internet to Anthropic leaking their trade secrets and having them distributed by third parties.
- none_to_remain 6mo agoInformation still wants to be free
- nextlevelwizard 6mo agoC’mon bro. It isn’t like all AI companies haven’t pirated all research papers, books, magazines, and pay walled content on the Internet. Either you are being naive AF or you are actively trying to spread discontent. I hope it is the former.
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- spiderfarmer 6mo agoTry asking Gemini information from workshop manuals that are not publicly available. It will pretty much tell you everything you want to know, but it will refuse to tell where it got the information.
- esseph 6mo agoNot just public data.
- spiderfarmer 6mo agoRemember Google’s book scanning project?
- neuroelectron 6mo agoIt's been ported to python and that version is not subject to the DMCA.
- shevy-java 6mo agoThis is why we can't have nice things. Also we need an alternative to Microsoft controlling all that things ultimately via proxy-control. They can just take down everything at will. I remember back when the xz util backdoor was found, there was some interesting discussion on the github issue tracker. I also participated. When I then looked the next day, the repository - AND the discussions - were taken down. I do understand to some extent that the code was taken down (even then I disagree, mind you; but I understand the rationale to some extent), but Microsoft also eliminated aka closed the discussions, which was to me censorship. I don't 100% remember whether the old discussions returned or not - from memory they were not returned, but perhaps the new owner decided to do so. Either way I then realised that it is really a big mistake to let greedy mega-corporations control infrastructure. We also see this right now with AI companies driving up RAM prices. We have to pay more for these gangster organisations.
- politelemon 6mo agoLittle to nothing of what you're describing is related to ms. Any provider is legally obliged by DMCA and other providers do so when served with a notice. The discussions were taken down by the maintainers because the infected tar were being posted there. As for the controlling infrastructure, once again that's on us for coalescing onto a single platform. The tool itself allows for distribution by its nature, but we as a mass of technologists are choosing to gather there. This happens no matter the platform owner, and you'll see it in other themes too.
- emaro 6mo agoIronic. Even more so since it seems like in general LLM output doesn't seem to be proteced by copyright in the first place. And since Claude code is entirely written by Claude code, it shouldn't be proteced as well.
- ArchieScrivener 6mo agoFuckinAright
- Hamuko 6mo agoI really hope that someone disputes their DMCA claim based on that. I imagine no one will, since they'll probably be sued by Anthropic, but it would be really funny.
- khalic 6mo agoWhat's this armchair lawyer interpretation I'm hearing these last weeks, "LLM output doesn't seem protected by copyright"? It's extremely clear, from jurisprudence, that the level of human intervention in the process is what determines if it's copyrightable. This blanket statement is sensationalist, to say the least.
- 0x3f 6mo agoThere's no way it was entirely written by Claude Code. But even if it were, collections and databases can be protected even if their individual elements are not.
- lifthrasiir 6mo agoA common misunderstanding AFAIK. It is true that Claude, not being a person, can't be assigned a copyright by itself, but a person that interacts with Claude generally can. The famous monkey selfie case [1] was different mainly because the human "photographer" had absolutely no role in the creation of work. Most LLM uses don't fall into such ambiguity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- mhitza 6mo ago
- mohsen1 6mo agoI haven't time to do it but can someone try to unminify the newer version based on the minified new version + the source of previous version? There's gotta be a way to do this
- pmarreck 6mo agoLOL I have yet to push mine up. Suck it, Dario. Anyway, Gemma4 just came out and is pretty good and can be made to work with Openclaw (currently dealing with a timeout issue though)
- JSR_FDED 6mo agoThere are no “good guys” amongst the top tier AI companies.
- IdontKnowRust 6mo agoWho "accidentally" pushed Claude source code, is now a hero! Thank you
- rasz 6mo agoIsnt Claude repo build using LLM thus they dont have any copyrights to begin with?
- The-Old-Hacker 6mo agoA phrase involving horses and stable doors comes to mind.
- federico_baez 6mo ago[dead]
- cg505 6mo agoI got a DMCA notice for my fork (https://github.com/cg505/claude-code https://github.com/cg505/claude-code) which I have not touched since May. Obviously, it didn't include the leaked source code. The DMCA notice published by GitHub includes this: > Note: Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8.1K repositories, inclusive of the parent repository. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-31-anthropic.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3...