It's a protest now.

Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

  • Senal@programming.devEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Yes but you wouldn’t actually need to make your clone very different for the copyright to be entirely different and then surely you wouldn’t get sued?

    Are you confident enough to bet 6-12 months of dev time and resources(possibly lawyer consultation fees) on that assumption ? because up until recently that’s what someone would need to do to find out.

    It might be fine, but the threat of litigation is a part of the deterrent.

    But also you can’t really copyright UI beyond the design itself, the functionality is free game as far as I understand.

    As with all of these things, it’s region specific.

    However, game mechanic patents and copyrights exists and are litigated regularly.