“But PearAI made a major misstep: PearAI originally slapped its own made-up closed license on its project, called the Pear Enterprise License, which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.”
PearAI took Continue’s Apache-licensed code, renamed it and slapped on a closed license that ChatGPT wrote. The project it copied is another YC company. YC also funds two other AI code editors, Void and Melty. Garry Tan defended the Apache license that only showed up after the uproar. Due diligence at YC now means checking that the founder quit a $270,000 job at Coinbase.