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> we decided that the codebase is not a derivative work that would require carrying forward the GPL license and have decided to release the code under the MIT instead. oh someone wants to get sued.

blog.gitbutler.comGrit: rewriting Git in Rust with agentsWe used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.

Raedwald

@raedwald.bsky.social

10 June

Remembering that Oracle successfully affirmed in court that *APIs* can be copyrighted.

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

...And then in that same case APIs were given broad fair-use protections. Re-implementing the API is not, in and of itself, the problem. At least, that's my understanding. I'm not a lawyer. Here's @lu.is's take (🧵), since he actually knows what he's talking about.

Luis Villa@lu.is

Sigh, I finally need to write up why this is delusional. TLDR: if you're rewriting the implementation of an API, with an honest-to-god cleanroom (which LLMs are not) *and* a decidedly different underpinning *and* have a good-faith reason to do it, then reuse of the API is probably fair use.

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