The README (https://github.com/adamtwiss/coda#license) addresses concerns about copyright in good faith and better than most agentic-driven repos:

> After our initial 0.9.0 pre-release (July 2026), community feedback raised that Coda contained AGPL-licensed code. This prompted a full audit of our codebase and dependencies, and steps to correct what it found. We now believe Coda complies with all applicable licenses. If you have any concern, please open a GitHub issue with the details and we'll happily investigate.

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Aurornis an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The debate is about whether or not the new code qualifies as derived.

They can remove all of the literal code matches from the codebase, but if it was written by having an LLM study the original code and then write something similar, it's hard to argue it's not a derivative work.

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ncphillips an hour ago | parent [-]

Genuine question: if a human did this manually would it be considered derived?

	▲	Aurornis 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design There is a lot of legal history of doing new designs with influence from reverse engineered sources. The basic rule is that you can't have someone familiar with the original code involved with writing the new code. LLMs are a new area, but I would expect that feeding the original source into an LLM context and saying "Write this, but different" wouldn't qualify as a clean-room design. There isn't enough general removal from the original subject matter.
	▲	recursive-call 38 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In my opinion yes. Just like if you watch a Bob Ross episode and copy all his brushstrokes, you have made a derivative (in the literal sense of the word) of his painting.

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mohamedkoubaa an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Imo without the sign off from Reckless it's suspicious

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xgulfie 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's so weird that they think they have to comply with copyright in this case, but not in the case of any other license

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slopinthebag an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"