Asahi Linux Drops MIT, Goes Full GPL After AI Used to Steal Unreleased Code

Asahi Linux is moving all of its repositories from the MIT license to the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, citing code laundering in which in-development code was taken from developers' personal forks, published without credit, or rewritten with AI to hide its origin. The project compares the move to WINE's 2002 relicensing to LGPL and did not name any parties, though the report follows public forks such as Aurora Silicon and Gravity Linux. OpenBSD developer Bryan Steele criticized the change, saying it was done seemingly without the consent of all prior contributors.