Post by @brynet@bsd.network

Sad to see Asahi out there burning bridges for no reason.. relicensing m1n1 and new drivers under GPL2-or-later, seemingly without the consent of all prior contributors, under the guise of "defending against AI bad actors", seems entirely disingenuous and misguided (and also probably illegal, btw).

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@teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe 30 min. ago

Don't we have Corellium to thank for doing the heavy lifting of getting Linux running on Apple Silicon in the first place?

I've had my own uhh, "challenges" with at least one Asahi attempted contribution (e.g. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer/pull/258#pullrequestreview-1933806739) They don't like my PR? Whatever, their bailiwick, their obsolete with known vulnerabilities version of Python dependency. I guess I am not too surprised they may be steering things in yet another dire direction?

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rm wget dependency, update python pkg slightly. by artkiver · Pull Request #258 · AsahiLinux/asahi-installer

remove wget dependency; use curl since it is a given on macOS. Update python to 3.9.13 which is the most recent 3.9.x build with a prebuilt macosx pkg on https://www.python.org/ftp/python/ TODO: up...

Bryan Steele :flan_beard:

@brynet@bsd.network 26 min. ago

@teajaygrey No, Asahi is at the very least responsible for very publicly doing the initial platform bring-up and upstreaming of Linux kernel drivers.

I don't think anything Corellium did was upstreamed.

I actually had a relatively positive opinion on the Ashai project and developers before this policy about-face. Oh well.

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@teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe 15 min. ago

Ah, maybe Corellium didn't get anything upstreamed?

Nonetheless, despite Asahi Linux putting out the call for reverse engineering Apple Silicon in December of 2020 (at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Linux#History), I seem to recall Corellium beating them to the punch with headlines in January 2021, e.g. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/20/corellium-linux-m1-macs/

Do Asahi devs claim they didn't derive any sources from https://github.com/corellium/linux-m1 with their upstreaming work as well? Seems, unlikely? Though far be it for me to waste more time doing forensic source reconstruction and retroactive lkml tracking to determine provenance. That sort of thing is what attorneys tend to charge hundreds of dollars and hour for and I prefer to avoid such realms. IIRC, Corellium also faced the brunt of Apple's legal team previously (albeit related to an iOS simulator I guess? e.g. https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/08/15/apple-sues-virtualization-firm-corellium-for-selling-ios-and-itunes-knockoffs); something that Asahi Linux seems to have mostly avoided AFAIK.