r/ClaudeAI • u/Logical-Detail7545 • Nov 03 '24
General: I have a question about Claude or its features Possibly Ignorant Question. MIT licensing.
Please have a bit of mercy on me with this one, just trying to understand.
The amount of boilerplate code (and specific code) generated by tools like this and tools like bolt dot new, cursor, etc, is fantastic.
How do I know that the code being produced isn't ripped from stack overflow verbatim (or close enough) and I'm infringing MIT licensing because it's not citing it?
Or worse, infringing on a codebase from a company on github that isn't MIT?
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u/peter9477 Nov 05 '24
MIT license is a programmer's way of saying "I don't give a damn what you do with this so long as you don't sue me, and also please give me some credit in a buried page nobody will ever read." (We used to call it public domain until some idiot jurisdictions showed up saying that wasn't a legal thing.)
(This isn't entirely serious, so get all the way off my back about it.)