Companies Close Open Source Over AI

Firms are starting to relicense or remove production code from public repositories because AI tools make automated code-scanning and exploit discovery dramatically cheaper. In practice companies may ship a proprietary commercial product while releasing a separate hobbyist fork to preserve community goodwill. — If this becomes common it will shrink the public audit surface, shift security responsibility onto vendors, and concentrate power and risk with proprietary maintainers rather than the wider open‑source community.