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scammers who want to make closed-source forks and charge money for them

I've yet to see evidence that this is real.

Amazon with ElasticSearch?

Sorry, I meant for Asahi specifically.

Rumor is that the change was made because of Omarchy. There is controversy over the use of AI-written code though I suspect the real reason is political and they don't like the people behind the Omarchy project.

Either way, I don't presume any good faith actor will have an issue with the GPL license. Just seems like pointless posturing. The usual Linux drama.

Omarchy.. That free and completely open source project that has brought tens of thousands of new people to Linux in the last year and has received millions of dollars in sponsorships to just make good project?

Omarchy isn't contributing to Linux development, though. Donating to Omarchy doesn't help put code in the Linux kernel, it just creates more tech debt for their distro.

Viral licenses like the GPL are a shot across the bow for anyone foisting downstream code and laundering it as their own features. Omarchy can still use Asahi's upstream code, but they generally shouldn't take credit for downstream work.

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