Saturday, 26 April, 2025

Anthropic Issues DMCA Takedown to Developer Attempting to Reverse-Engineer Claude Code

Anthropic has issued a DMCA takedown notice to a developer who de-obfuscated and published the source code of its AI coding assistant, Claude Code, on GitHub. Unlike OpenAI's Codex CLI, which is open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license, Claude Code is distributed under a restrictive commercial license and has its source code obfuscated. This action has sparked criticism from the developer community, contrasting with OpenAI's more open approach that encourages community contributions.