Tell HN: Claude claims the AGPLv3 license violates it's content policy

17 points

a month ago

On three separate projects, Claude has refused to add an AGPLv3 license to my project, telling me that it violates the content policy. Most recent reject gave:

    API Error: Output blocked by content filtering policy

I've reproduced this a total of four times. It has also been reported for quite some time[1][2], including by myself a month or so ago (though I can't find the link), and it is clearly not just happening to me.

This is unacceptable IMHO, and is beginning to feel like an intentional decision on their part. For myself at least, I'm going to start diversifying (or switching entirely to Codex) as I could see a day when Claude starts refusing to work on an AGPL codebase. It certainly wouldn't be the first time Anthropic has rug-pulled us with their lack of transparency. This is especially bothersome to me since I would be highly surprised if they didn't train on AGPL code in the first place.

To say I am disappointed would be an understatement. I certainly do hope this gets changed.

[1]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12705

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569652