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Public story · 2026-03-06 · source-backed
— chardet maintainer used Claude Code to rewrite LGPL library under MIT. JPlag: 1.29% similarity. Original creator objects. Willison "personally leans toward legitimate" but notes the maintainer's decade of exposure and Claude's likely training on the codebase. This will define licensing battles for years. (simonwillison.net)
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Claude Code uses MCP / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / What happened next
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