The Asahi Linux project announced they are transitioning from the MIT license to the GPL license to combat “bad faith actors.”

Asahi Linux is the project responsible for reverse engineering the drivers for Apple Silicon chips to make it possible to run Linux on modern Macs. The project has proven to be something of an engineering marvel, giving Mac owners options they otherwise would not have had.

Until now, Asahi was licensed under the permissive MIT license, but the project devs have seen that permissiveness being abused by bad actors, as they outline in a blog post .

When Asahi Linux was first started, it was with the intent that we develop a Free Software ecosystem for the Apple Silicon platform. To facilitate and encourage the participation of our friends at the BSDs and other Free Software operating systems, we endeavoured to licence as much of our code as possible under the permissive MIT licence.

Unfortunately, this is no longer viable.…