If I asked Claude to do the same can I also just put MIT license on it with my name? https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux2 uses Apache License apparently. I know it doesn't matter that much and as long as it's permissive and openly available people don't care it's just pedantics but still.

The reference code shows how to setup the inference pipeline. It does not implement 99% of what the C code does. That is, the inference kernels, the transformer and so forth.

i would love if you took the time to instruct claude to re-implement inference in c/c++, and put an mit license on it, it would be huge, but only if it actually works