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Software Licensing
Open-source licensing carries legal obligations that most commercial teams underestimate: copyleft exposure, licence-change risk, and the emerging question of AI-generated code provenance. This is also home to the Beyond the Source Code series.
Beyond the Source Code
Chardet: clean rooms, copyleft and the AI rewrite problem
Chardet 7.0.0 was rewritten by AI and released without copyleft. Across the US, EU and UK, the rewrite likely escapes the LGPL: and that may be the real problem
17 min · EU · UK · USChardet: clean rooms, copyleft and the AI rewrite problem
Chardet 7.0.0 was rewritten by AI and released without copyleft. Across the US, EU and UK, the rewrite likely escapes the LGPL: and that may be the real problem
Beyond the source code: the hidden licensing crisis in open AI
Open-weight AI models are served through cloud intermediaries that preserve licensing obligations in theory but eliminate visibility in practice.
Beyond the source code: your infrastructure vendor changed its licence, and your legal team probably does not know
When infrastructure vendors change their licences, most legal teams miss it. The commercial risks do not reverse when the vendors do.
Beyond the source code: one GPL violation, five compounding legal exposures
How one GPL violation creates five compounding legal exposures: injunctions, damages, moral rights, cross-border claims, and new plaintiffs.
When does software become “AI”? The EU definition that catches businesses off guard
When does software qualify as AI under the EU AI Act? Four legal criteria that determine regulatory scope, with everyday business examples.
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