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841 AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/22/2026 13:00 EDT

AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was important for us to do that, because we felt that if it was just satire,

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