Comment by vunderba
5 hours ago
From the landing page:
> 66,183 lines of hand-written real-mode assembly
Goes to the github - contributers jggonz and CLAUDE. The README.md doubles down on this at the bottom with the license.
> Everything here is hand-written; no third-party code is vendored into the OS, so the whole tree is covered by that one license.
That's what happens when you let an LLM write your ad-copy...
It can't be written by LLM -- the human author has claimed copyright
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203613
> there is no value in being a Public-Domain-Dumping-Ground.
First of all, isn't that the entire point of the Internet Archive? Sounds pretty valuable to me.
Second, doesn't the same issue effectively apply to everything written with the BSD or MIT license? I'm not sure I understand the point though, so I'm probably missing something.