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👺Try to understand #Malus
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https://youtu.be/Lq4-jkS9id4

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

@pluralistic

Hey there, I would really like to know your take on https://malus.sh/, the related https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/ FOSDEM 2026 talk, and their utterly depressing conclusion.

Are we that far off already? Do you think it is even worth it to try to fight it off? Because they make good points... There's nothing to fight this.

#AI #LLM #cleanroom #opensouce #fosdem #fosdem2026 #gpl #freesoftware #malus #datalaundering

https://youtu.be/6godSEVvcmU

WTF 🤬 stealing from #opensource #malus

I thought Malus.sh was a bit of a bad joke. https://web.archive.org/web/20260303054215/https://malus.sh/blog.html But now, Chardet, a tool we actually use, has been "liberated" from LGPL using #VibeCoding tools: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/blob/7.3.0/README.md#whats-new-in-chardet-7

#Malus #LLM #Chardet #FreeSoftware