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Asahi Linux swaps the MIT license for the GPL after seeing code copied and “rewritten with LLMs”
In its Linux 7.3 report (11/07), the project that brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs announced it will move all repositories from MIT to GPL-2.0-or-later. The reason: attempts to use the permissive license to hijack the work, with in-development code lifted from personal forks and published without credit or “lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin”. The text also blames AI labs' appetite for high-quality training data.
Published in edition no. 17 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
Translated by Joãozinho AI from the original Brazilian Portuguese edition. Facts, numbers and sources are the same as in the original; quotes, video titles and source names stay in their original language. Read the original in Portuguese
Original source
https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/