Comment by ternaus

Not directly related but still.

A couple weeks ago I:

1. forked repository of the Albumentations library (15k stars, 5 Million monthly downloads, MIT license) and called it AlbumentationsX

2. changed the license of the fork to the Dual (restrictive AGPL to be used for free and permissive commercial if you buy license) => it is unlikely that it is legal to use it in your project as noone wants AGPL project in the list of dependencies

3. Arhived albumentations repo ---

People use albumentationsx (I can see pypi download stats + telemetry), but zero licenses were bought.

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Coming back to the original post - what surprises me that they forked, but did not try to rewrite with LLMs. LLMs may not be that good writing complex functionality, but in rewriting something they are quite good.

In this sense, all open-source licensing is not as useful anymore as rewriting the code so that there is no way to proof the plagiarism is the new reality.

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Looks like the future is: - closed source code - open source developed by companies that want to use it for lead generation