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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2026
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In a perfect world we wouldn't even need licenses, or just use BSD style ones, but alas.. And thus moving to a copyleft license is the best move for sure.
AI bubble has shown that if you don’t have billions of dollars for lawyers, your IP will be copied and compressed into an LLM and you won’t be able to do anything about it, regardless of license. But at least Apple won’t be able to profit from Asahi team work and BSDs won’t be able to use drivers from Asahi. So much winning.
Apple is an asshole company, if they wanted community contribution for their drivers, they could've made their stuff open, now they can go fuck off, full stop
Given the state of Asahi right now I don’t think Apple would be interested. It’s enough for some enthusiasts willing to sacrifice some things but by the time Asahi approaches function and performance parity that hardware will be commercially irrelevant. What does this even achieve in the age of license laundering with LLMs?
It achieves that someone cannot just do a 1:1 copy and redistribute it as closed source.
People do it with LLMs all the time now. Just tell machine to rewrite it in another language to wash away the license.