When I look at this website, which seems to be intended as a serious project and not a joke, to me it kind of feels like it would be the end of FOSS… https://malus.sh/ Is it just me?

Or will the majority of contributors still bother if they won’t even get the most basic attribution anymore, let alone GPL and other complex licenses being enforcable at all?

There are also these events that make me wonder if this service can even work, given the apparent training data plagiarism problem. This feels kind of independent from whether a gen AI being fed a project can ever be “clean room”:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

I feel like there are more reasons than ever to tell people to cut out gen AI code from FOSS entirely, if they care about respecting attribution and the work of others. Even if just morally. This whole ride seems to be going in a bad direction.

I’m curious about other people’s thoughts, however.

PS: Don’t trust me on any law-related guesses, IANAL. This isn’t legal advice. I’m just a concerned coder.

Update: seems like it is satire https://malus.sh/blog.html but the trend as a whole seems to be real: https://www.mrlatte.net/en/stories/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/ https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/