Asahi Linux Drops MIT, Goes Full GPL After AI Used to Steal Unreleased Code

gnabgib

Discussion on source (411 points, 2 days ago, 387 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401867

rvz

This is a terrible source, riddled with ads and unreadable. Use the correct source instead: https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/

phendrenad2

> code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin. The MIT licence explicitly allows this Um, no... MIT requires that the license text be included. That's attribution, because you normally put your name or the name of your organization in there. You can't just take MIT code and have AI rewrite it without attribution, at least, you need to do some kind of air gap or something, and lawyers might poke holes in that too. I'm sure people are doing it though. But GPL won't save you from that. But I do understand why they want to move to GPL, to block out scammers who want to make closed-source forks and charge money for them.