> As another example, WINE does not ban all former Microsoft employees, they just ban anyone who has ever looked at the Windows source code.

It's an interesting example given that Wine considers deriving code from traces of original components (like hypervisor traces) tainted and also bans LLM contributions for legal considerations: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

Great job for bringing up new apple's silicon chip , m4 a18 to linux . I hope the project keep alive and maintained , and if you can't mainline it , remmber many other project do out-of-tree version well maintained [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] .

[1]: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux Rust for Linux

[2]: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/ Android OS linux kernel

[3]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs OpenZFS kernel module

[4]: https://github.com/awemorris/linux-pc98 Linux pc98 / 32 bit x86

[5]: https://github.com/OpenDingux/linux Linux on retro gaming device

[6]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux Linux on older apple silicon M1/M2/M3 chip

[7]: https://github.com/microsoft/wsl2-linux-kernel Linux on Windows

At least according to your own accounts on the Asahi IRC rooms, you were very aware of SPTM (which is part of the AS platform) and knew the people working on it: https://oftc.catirclogs.org/asahi-dev/2026-06-04#35383763

Have you consulted this with a lawyer, or is it what you simply think/believe.