Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool

In the battle between two “agent” coding tools – Anthrop’s Claude code And Openai’s Codex Cli – The latter seems to stimulate multiple goodwill developers from the first. This is at least partially because Anthropic issued a notice of rejecting a programmer trying to reverse Claude Code, which is under a more restrictive license to use from Codex Cli.

Claude Code and Codex CLI are a duel tools that achieve a lot of the same things: they allow developers to get involved in the strength of AI models working in the cloud to complete the various encoding tasks. The anthrop and the openii released them within a few months – each racing company to catch a valuable Mindshare developer.

The original Codex Cli code is available under the Apache 2.0 license that allows distribution and commercial use. This is contrary to Claude Code, which is related to the commercial license of Anthropic. This limits how it can be changed without the explicit approval of the company.

The anthrop also “darkened” the original Claude code code. In other words, the original Claude Code code is not easily accessible. When a Developer rejected him and published the original code on Github, anthropy endured a DMCA appeal – Copyright notice that requires the removal of the code.

Developers On social media You are not satisfied The moves, which they said was adversely compared to Openi’s introduction to Codex Cli. In the week or about about the Code Cli output, Openii combined dozens of proposals for developmental developers at a tool code base, including one that enables Codex Cli Tap AI models from rival providers – including anthrop.

Anthropic did not respond to the commentary request. To be fair to the laboratory, Claude Code is still in a beta version (And a little buggy); It is possible that the anthrop will publish the original code under a permissive license in the future. Companies have many reasons to deceive the code, and security considerations are one of them.

This is a somewhat surprising PR victory for the opening, which has given up an open code for the benefit of ownership, locked products in recent months. It can be an emblematic for a wider shift in an approach to the laboratory; Said Openai Executive Director Sam Altman earlier this year He believed That the company was on the “wrong side of history” when it comes to an open source.