Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1105936/

The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report
on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices.

Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit
our permissive licensing to hijack our work, with a direct view to
replacing the project and aggressively monetising Linux on Apple
Silicon. 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 MIT licence explicitly allows this, and
has no carveouts to protect against bad faith actors.

As such, we made the difficult decision to begin the process of
transitioning all of our repositories to the GNU General Public
License version 2 or later. Going forward all Asahi Linux code will
be licenced under strong copyleft licences only. Those who do not
learn from history are doomed to repeat it.