Asahi Linux ditches MIT for GPLv2 after LLM-rewritten code lifting incident
steipete · x · 2026-11-08
Asahi Linux, the volunteer project reverse-engineering Apple Silicon Macs to run Linux, is moving all its code from MIT to GPLv2-or-later. Developer James Calligeros explains in the Linux 7.3 progress report that the permissive license was repeatedly exploited: "in-development feature 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 report cites WINE's 2002 MIT-to-LGPL switch as precedent: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
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