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Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL

Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering

Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL

TL;DRAsahi Linux switches from MIT to GPL license over AI training concerns.

Why it matters: Sets precedent for open-source projects protecting code from LLM training without consent.

It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed... They have announced that Asahi is moving all of its…

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