In the battle between two “agent” coding tools – the Claude Claude of Anthropiku and Codex CLI of OpenAI – the latter seems to be fueling more good will than the first. This is at least in part because anthropics has issued Takedown notifications for a developer trying to return the reverse engineering code, which is under a more restrictive use license than Codex CLI.
Claude Code and Codex CLI are dueling tools that accomplish most of the same thing: allow developers to be inserted into the power of the models of the one that operate in the cloud to complete different coding tasks. Anthropic and Openai released them within a few months from one another – each company competing to capture a valuable Mindshare developer.
The source code for Codex CLI is available under an apache 2.0 license that allows for distribution and trade use. This is in contrast to the Claude Code, which is related to the anthropic’s trade license. This limits how it can be modified without clear permission from the company.
Anthropic also “blocked” the source code for the Claude Code. In other words, the Claude Code source code is not available. When a developer deleted it and issued the source code in the Github, anthropic filed a DMCA complaint-a copyright notice requiring the removal of the code.
Developers on social media were not satisfied with the masses, which they said were unfavorable to the participation of Codex CLI of Openai. In the week or more since the release of Codex CLI, Openai has joined dozens of suggestions for developers at the vehicle code base, including what Codex CLI TAP it allows for rival providers – including anthropic.
Anthropic did not respond to a comment request. To be right in the laboratory, the Claude code is still in beta (and a little buggy); It is possible that anthropic will issue the source code under a permit license in the future. Companies have many reasons to block the code, security considerations are one of them.
It is a somewhat startling Protes for Openai, which in recent months has been removed from open source omissions in favor of the owner’s products, closed. May be emblematic of a wider change in the lab access; Openai General Director Sam Altman earlier this year said he believed the company was on the “wrong side of history” when it comes to open source.
