I wonder what's so special about Mac audio that necessitates changes to core ALSA.
I also think it's interesting that beamforming is a thing that exists on such a generic device as a laptop. Is that how the mic tries to pick up only things in front of the laptop? Must be!
majorchord 2 hours ago [-]
The site guidelines require using the title from the article, and I wanted to emphasize the license change for this post, so I looked for an article that was specific to that point. I'm sorry you don't like the source. I use an ad-blocker so I did not notice any ads.
phendrenad2 2 hours ago [-]
> 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 MIT licence explicitly allows this
Um, no... MIT requires that the license text be included. That's attribution, because you normally put your name or the name of your organization in there. You can't just take MIT code and have AI rewrite it without attribution, at least, you need to do some kind of air gap or something, and lawyers might poke holes in that too. I'm sure people are doing it though. But GPL won't save you from that.
But I do understand why they want to move to GPL, to block out scammers who want to make closed-source forks and charge money for them.
wmf 23 minutes ago [-]
scammers who want to make closed-source forks and charge money for them
I've yet to see evidence that this is real.
cowlevel 12 minutes ago [-]
Amazon with ElasticSearch?
charcircuit 33 minutes ago [-]
If the code is trivial, not copyrightable, you do not have to follow the license.
digitalsquare 27 minutes ago [-]
Doesn't the concept of what is trivial shift with what is possible with LLMs?
cowlevel 9 minutes ago [-]
Doubt it. If you needed an LLM to launder it it's surely not trivial. Trivial is any well known code pattern for example.
"for(int j=0; j<ARRAY_SIZE(a); j++) total += a[j];" - you could copy paste this and more out of leaked Windows source code and it still wouldn't be a copyright violation. But beware that a sum of a large number of trivialities can be not trivial.
Use the correct source instead: https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
I also think it's interesting that beamforming is a thing that exists on such a generic device as a laptop. Is that how the mic tries to pick up only things in front of the laptop? Must be!
Um, no... MIT requires that the license text be included. That's attribution, because you normally put your name or the name of your organization in there. You can't just take MIT code and have AI rewrite it without attribution, at least, you need to do some kind of air gap or something, and lawyers might poke holes in that too. I'm sure people are doing it though. But GPL won't save you from that.
But I do understand why they want to move to GPL, to block out scammers who want to make closed-source forks and charge money for them.
I've yet to see evidence that this is real.
"for(int j=0; j<ARRAY_SIZE(a); j++) total += a[j];" - you could copy paste this and more out of leaked Windows source code and it still wouldn't be a copyright violation. But beware that a sum of a large number of trivialities can be not trivial.