Comment by therealmarv

4 days ago

Claude Code has a closed license https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE....

There is fork named Anon Kode https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode which can use more models and non-Anthropic ones. But the license is unclear for it.

It's interesting to see codex to be Apache License. Maybe somebody extends it to be usable with competing models.

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WatchDog  4 days ago

If it's a fork of the proprietary code, the license is pretty clear, it's violating copyright.

Now whether or not anthropic care enough to enforce their license is separate issue, but it seems unwise to make much of an investment in it.

cube2222  4 days ago

In terms of terminal-based and open-source, I think aider is the most popular one.

  • therealmarv  4 days ago

    yes! It's great! I like it!

    But it has one downside: It's not so good on unknown big complex code bases where you don't know how it's structured. I wished they (or somebody else) would add an AI or an automation to add files dynamically or in a smart way when you don't know the codebase structure (with the expense of burning more tokens).

    I'm thinking Codex (have not checked it yet), Claude Code, Anon Kode and all the AI editors/plugins doing a better job there (and potentially burning more tokens).

    But that's the only downside I can think of about aider.