Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency (opens in new tab)

I've thought about doing this as a joke ever since LLMs started being used for generating code, I even made something [1] adjacent to it for April fools last year. It's weird to see someone taking the idea seriously.

[1] https://retributionai.com/

I share the analysis, and am stunned by the gaping loophole they are exploiting. Is it the end of open-source?