Malus is not a real project btw, it's a parody:

“Let's end open source together with this one simple trick”

https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/talk/SUVS7G/feedback/

Malus is translating code into text, and from text back into code.

It gives the illusion of clean room implementation that some companies abuse.

The irony is that ChatGPT/Claude answers are all actually directly derived from open-source code, so...