From the site: “# Clean Room as a Service
Finally, liberation from open source license obligations.
Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.”
Edit: Consensus is this is satire, but sadly I can see it being a reality at some point.
FYI This site is satire.
Excpect that you can give it money and it does the things. I agree it’s probably satire, but it kind of goes past that when it actually does the thing.
For now…
I’m about 95% certain this is a joke but Poe’s law is dead. In addition to the name being on the nose, the footer has
This service is provided “as is” without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services.
I do love the notion that most projects are documented well enough to recreate from scratch.
lol, yeah. Some functions are just: “does thing. Has side effects”
Yeah. I saw a video about it yesterday. These people have less than zero shame and they don’t care about anything except profit.
So if I understand the joke it’s a service that uses AI to remove licenses correct?
Yes. A lot of open source licenses state that if you
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use their code you have to note the fact that you used it in any licensing agreements you may create
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may restrict what you use it for “don’t go Palntir with our code
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state that if you make changes to the code then you must make those changes available as well
This is saying they’ll recreate things to give corporations an “out” from those restrictions
Got it thanks.
In terms of the technology it is unfortunately possible to exist.
However in terms of legality it 100% would be used off the books and underground. As far as corporate usage only if there is a certainty they would not get caught, although even than probably not as its cheaper to just use the original code as is.
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