Saturday, 21 March, 2026
Anthropic Issues DMCA Takedown to Developer Attempting to Reverse-Engineer Claude Code
By Isha
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.
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