Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool
In the battle between two “agent” coding tools – the Claude code of Anthropic and the Codex CLI of OpenAi – the last more developer seems to promote goodwill than the first. That is at least partly because Anthropic Takedown knowledge has issued to a developer trying to the Claude Code of Reverse-Engineer, which is under a more limiting user permit than Codex CLI.
Claude Code and Codex CLI are dual tools that achieve a lot of the same: developers make use of the power of AI models that are performed in the cloud to complete various coding tasks. Anthropic and OpenAi have released them within a few months in succession – every company racet to conquer valuable developer Mindshare.
The source code for Codex CLI is available under an Apache 2.0 license that makes distribution and commercial use possible. In contrast to Claude Code, that is bound by Anthropic’s commercial license. That limits how it can be changed without the explicit permission of the company.
Anthropic “obscured” also the source code for Claude Code. In other words, the source code of Claude Code is not immediately available. When one Developer has forced it And the source code on Github released, Anthropic has one DMCA complaint – A copyright notification in which the removal of the code is requested.
Developers On social media Was not satisfied Due to the move they said, compared unfavorably with OpenAI’s rollouts of Codex CLI. In the week or so since the release of Codex CLI, OpenAI has merged dozens of developer suggestions in the code base of the tool, including one that leaves Codex CLI Tap AI models from rival providers – Including anthropic.
Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment. To be honest with the lab, Claude code is still in beta (and a little buggy); It is possible Anthropic will release the source code in the future under a tolerant license. Companies have many reasons to cover up code, security reasons are one of them.
It is a somewhat surprising PR victory for OpenAi, which has been removed from open-source releases in favor of its own closed products in recent months. It can be emblematic for a broader shift in the approach to the lab; Openai CEO Sam Altman said earlier this year that he believed that the company was on the “wrong side of history” when it comes to open source.
