MALUS - Clean Room as a Service (https://malus.sh/)

Brutal satire on the whole vibe-porting license washing thing (previously (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/)):

Finally, liberation from open source license obligations.

Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems..

I admit it took me a moment to confirm that this was a joke. Just too on-the-nose.

Via Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350424)

Tags: open-source (https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source), ai (https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), generative-ai (https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), llms (https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), ai-ethics (https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics)