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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch

A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate backlash.

Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch

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[He cloned] another AI editor ... covered under the Apache open source license [and] slapped its own made-up closed license ... which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.
Who gives a shit, rigth?
- Apache explicitly allows this. I don't get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.
  
  They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I'm still looking for precise wording of the PEL.
  It's very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.
  EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.
  This is a small technical violation that's easily remedied, but I understand that's what got people pissed off.
  
  I'm a little bit in the camp of 'it might be legal, but that doesn't mean it is ok'. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going 'jobs done' very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a 'lol, of course they did' thing. But that is me.
  
  It's a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes
  
  Yeah, pretty bad coverage of that by the article.
  Apache isn't GPL, and it isn't an oversight that it allows closed source derivative works.
- The way he admitted it was hilarious too

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