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“we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work”
what did y’all think permissive meant? vibes? papers? essays?
Asahi Linux is moving everything from the MIT licence to GPLv2-or-later.
Asahi is the volunteer project that reverse-engineers Apple Silicon Macs so they can run Linux. In today's Linux 7.3 progress report, developer James Calligeros explains why: people have been using the permissive licence to take the team's work. "In some extreme cases, 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 points to WINE, which switched from MIT to LGPL in 2002 for the same reason: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
The same report brings real wins too. M3 Macs now install without the EXPERT flag, Thunderbolt support (USB3 and networking for now) is shipping to users, and the team got GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside the muvm VM using Google's per-process page size patches.
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The Asahi project was all about taking something closed and restricted and opening it up.
Adding new restrictions that make it harder for other projects to build on that is not the way. And that AI rejection is just silly.
Starting a hard problem before an important day isn’t a good idea, because my brain will over fixate on perfection and will just not leave, like ever...
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I love messing with old cranky Claude. Soon will release a custom harness for automatic model misalignment and security work, along with some research on AI security that I've done :)
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Grok is down, so I decided to go see what the family is doing. They seem like nice people.
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Catch me at Defcon for some Microslop stickers (of course I had to do this). They’re large - perfect to put on a Microslop laptop for all your Microslop needs.
