Asahi Linux is moving everything from the MIT licence to GPLv2-or-later. Asahi is the volunteer project that reverse-engineers Apple Silicon Macs so they can run Linux. In today's Linux 7.3 progress report, developer James Calligeros explains why: people have been using the permissive licence to take the team's work. "In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin." The report points to WINE, which switched from MIT to LGPL in 2002 for the same reason: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The same report brings real wins too. M3 Macs now install without the EXPERT flag, Thunderbolt support (USB3 and networking for now) is shipping to users, and the team got GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside the muvm VM using Google's per-process page size patches.

> Debian is good. > Arch is good. > Ubuntu is good. > Omarchy is good. > Fedora is good. > Linux Mint is good. > openSUSE is good. > Manjaro is good. > Pop!_OS is good. > NixOS is good. > Gentoo is good. > Alpine Linux is good. > Void Linux is good. > Kali Linux is good. > elementary OS is good. How beautiful is this? Choices. A luxury you don’t get with Windows or macOS. Use what you like. Let others enjoy what they like.