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Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by PenguinRevolver » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 1:09 PM UTC

aorth wrote: post #13

Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?

At that point, I could get Claude to re-create this project if I wanted to. I wouldn't have to wait ten years[1] until 2036 (which is really stupid in its own right) for 1.0.0 — mainly some AI vibed code — to be reforked into a new project.

I get it's a fun little AI toy project, but that license is just silly for one.

[1] https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/L...

Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by victorbjorklund » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

aorth wrote: post #13

Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?

Depends on jurisdiction and probably also how it wrote it.

If I say ”make a for loop that prints number 1 to 10” then I would guess it would count as my work even if the AI made the actual edit.

If I said ”build me a calculator app” then probably not count as human work

Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by roschdal » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

aorth wrote: post #13

Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?

See Functional Source License at https://fsl.software/ - same idea, different length before becoming MIT license.

Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by throw1234567891 » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #16

andai wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Claude wrote that part, referring to itself having hand-written them. (It seems to like that phrase a lot.)

Machine generated lying.

“Machine-generated lying”, or “the machine generated those lies”.

Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by andreasrosdal » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

PenguinRevolver wrote: post #21

aorth wrote: post #13

Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?

At that point, I could get Claude to re-create this project if I wanted to. I wouldn't have to wait ten years[1] until 2036 (which is really stupid in its own right) for 1.0.0 — mainly some AI vibed code — to be reforked into a new project. I get it's a fun little AI toy project, but that license is just silly for one. [1] https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/L...

False. I would sue you for copyright infringement if you did this.

Re: Nordstjernen 1.0

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Post by Tajnymag » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 9:46 AM UTC

bofaGuy wrote: post #8

ursuscamp wrote: post #3

The readme says it's 88,000 lines of "hand-written" C, and yet there's only 41 commits all from the last day, and they're all co-authored by Claude. I have no problem with AI code, but it should not be advertised as hand-written.

I saw these referenced in the repo. Maybe the hand written parts are here? https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/lexbor https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/quickjs

No, as those are just forks of already existing projects and the forks don't contain any additional commits compared to upstream.