Comment by integralpilot
15 hours ago
I don't see open source as having "competitors". If someone wants to make a fork and use AI to write code (which I also think wouldn't be very useful, as there's no public documentation and everything needs to traced and RE-ed), they are welcome to. We're interested in upstreaming though, which means we need to make sure the origin of code and licence is all compatible and acceptable for mainline, and don't want to infringe on Apple's copyright (which they may enforce on a fork with less strict rules than ours).
I get “fear of being sued or decoupled from the upstream project” for sure. It definitely speaks to the sad state of affairs currently when companies at Apple’s scale simply operate with complete impunity at copyright law when it comes to using AI (you think Apple isn’t using stuff like Claude internally? I can 100% guarantee you they are) but are able to turn around and bully people who might dare to do the same