Malus’s site says. "Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems."...

"Some licenses require you to contribute improvements back. Your shareholders didn't invest in your company so you could help strangers," Malus’s site says. "Is your legal team frustrated with the attribution clause? Tired of putting 'Portions of this software…' in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free - why should they get credit?"

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I am sorry, but… F*CK YOU, Malus, and the inhuman "developers" of Malus, indeed.

Such a… f*cking… ineffable sorrow…
No… f*cking… words…

Related: https://lemmy.world/post/44767797 (And people wonder why AI will ruin the world... malus.sh...)

Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.