PearAI, a startup founded by Duke Pan, recently launched an AI coding editor that was initially licensed under a proprietary license called the Pear Enterprise License. However, it was later revealed that the code was cloned from another AI editor called Continue, which is licensed under the Apache open source license. Pan admitted that the Pear Enterprise License was written by ChatGPT, a language model developed by Meta AI, and that the project was not a fork with new features added, but rather a replica with a new name.