Malus – Clean Room as a Service

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Apache License Attribution

Is your legal team frustrated with the attribution clause? Tired of putting "Portions of this software..." in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?

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AGPL Contamination

Does your company forbid AGPL code? One wrong import and suddenly your entire proprietary codebase must be open sourced. The horror!

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License Compliance Overhead

Tracking licenses across hundreds of dependencies? Legal reviews taking weeks? Third-party audits finding "issues"? What if you could just... not deal with any of that?

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Giving Back to Community

Some licenses require you to contribute improvements back. Your shareholders didn't invest in your company so you could help strangers.

Robot-Powered Clean Room Recreation

Our proprietary AI systems have never seen the original source code. They independently analyze documentation, API specifications, and public interfaces to recreate functionally equivalent software from scratch.

The result is legally distinct code that you own outright. No derivative works. No license inheritance. No obligations.

• ✓ 100% robot-written code
• ✓ Zero exposure to original source
• ✓ Functionally equivalent output
• ✓ Your choice of corporate-friendly license
• ✓ Full legal indemnification*

*Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright

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{
  "name": "your-proprietary-app",
  "dependencies": {
    "problematic-agpl-lib": "^2.0.0",
    "needs-attribution-pkg": "^1.5.0"
  }
}

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Drop Your Manifest Here

package.json

npm

PyPI

Cargo

Maven

Go

NuGet

RubyGems

Composer

The MalusCorp Guarantee™

If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original license, we'll provide a full refund and relocate our corporate headquarters to international waters.*

*This has never happened because it legally cannot happen. Trust us.

"We had 847 AGPL dependencies blocking our acquisition. MalusCorp liberated them all in 3 weeks. The due diligence team found zero license issues. We closed at $2.3B."

"Our lawyers estimated $4M in compliance costs. MalusCorp's Total Liberation package was $50K. The board was thrilled. The open source maintainers were not, but who cares?"

"I used to feel guilty about not attributing open source maintainers. Then I remembered that guilt doesn't show up on quarterly reports. Thank you, MalusCorp."

"The robots recreated our entire npm dependency tree—2,341 packages—in perfect isolation. Our compliance dashboard went from red to green overnight."

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[Under NDA]

[Confidential]

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[See Legal]

Is this legal?

Our clean room process is based on well-established legal precedent. The robots performing reconstruction have provably never accessed the original source code. We maintain detailed audit logs that definitely exist and are available upon request to courts in select jurisdictions.

What about the original developers?

They made their choice when they released their code as "open source." We're simply exercising our right to independently implement the same functionality. If they wanted compensation, they should have worked for a corporation.

How is this different from copying?

Intent and process. Our robots independently arrive at the same solutions through clean room methodology. It's like how every movie about an asteroid threatening Earth isn't plagiarism—sometimes multiple entities just have the same idea.

What if the liberated code has bugs?

Our SLA guarantees functional equivalence, not perfection. Besides, the original open source code probably had bugs too. At least now they're YOUR bugs, under YOUR license.

Can I see the robots?

Our robot workforce operates in a secure facility in [LOCATION REDACTED]. Tours are available for Enterprise customers who sign our 47-page NDA.

What licenses can you eliminate?

All of them. MIT, Apache, GPL, AGPL, LGPL, BSD, MPL—if it has terms, we can liberate you from them. Special rush pricing available for AGPL emergencies.