For a small price, Malus.sh will use AI to ingest any piece of software you give and spit out a new version of it that “liberates” it from any existing copyright licenses.
The site is an elaborate bit of satire designed to bring attention to a very real problem in open source, but it also does exactly what it advertises and is a real LLC that is making money by using AI to produce “clean room” clones of existing software.
Previous, related thread for those interested:
Ah did not see that! Sorry I would of just posted this as a comment there.
Oh, I just meant to help easily direct people interested in this topic to a related one. Sorry in turn if it came across as criticism, that was not my intention!
Please flag duplicate posts so we can merge them as comments.
A post was merged into an existing topic: Malus: This could have bad implications for Open Source/Linux
Apologies, I hadn’t assessed whether this article added information outside of the original thread and was thus separate. I’ll flag when in doubt next time.
No worries, it just makes it easier for us.