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points by Rodmine 22 hours ago | 0 comments

>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.

This made me laugh. For context: some people used LLMs to import code to get Omarchy to work on macs. So, these people are switching licenses so that they could stop competitor distros from being compatible.

So, before, Asahi people were happy with Linux working on macs; now they want THEIR linux working on macs (they are not changing to GPL out of the goodness of their hearts or that they believe in everything being open, remember, they are only doing it so that Omarchy, or similar, can't copy their work without having to be GPL themselves).

Meanwhile Omarchy is MIT; which means Omarchy is allowing Asahi (and everyone else) to copy their work, with the actual intent of getting Linux everywhere.

[–] grim_io 22 hours ago

GPL protects against someone taking your code, adding proprietary extensions, and closing off access to the source code.

[–] yjftsjthsd-h 2 hours ago

True. Was Omarchy doing that? (I'm confused why changing the license matters, if both projects are already open source and releasing all the code to the public anyways)

[–] grim_io 1 hour ago

They don't need to wait for the last step of a rug pull to occur, the trajectory is worrisome enough to take action before the shit hits the fan.

[–] Rodmine 20 hours ago

True, but knowing why they went GPL, it is hilarious. They had MIT and they were mad about another MIT-licensed project using their work.

[–] grim_io 11 hours ago

I think the concerns are more long term than that.

[–] rowanG077 19 hours ago

This really leaves a bad taste in my mouth too. It's unfortunately inline with their absurd AI policy. Instead of working for the good of the users they literally are trying to halt progress. It's pretty clear the omarchy people will run circles around asahi very soon. Asahi people think this too and are trying to limit them as much as they can with license changes.

[–] Rodmine 16 hours ago

Also, they say this:

> with a direct view to replacing the project and aggressively monetising Linux on Apple Silicon

which I hope everyone knows is completely dishonest. Nothing in Omarchy is about monetizing Linux; and monetizing Linux is and has been completely fine since its inception.

Asahi people just seem to be sour that someone else is joining the initiative but in a different project where AI use is encouraged to get to the same goal faster.