Malus.sh promises a simple deal. Pay a penny per kilobyte. Upload your open source software. Get back a fresh clone, free from license strings. No attribution needed. No copyleft obligations. Just corporate-friendly code ready for profit. The site calls it liberation. Developers call it a nightmare. And it works. This tool hit the scene recently, blending satire with stark reality. Created by Dylan Ayrey and Mike Nolan, it’s both a jab at open source exploitation and a functioning LLC pulling in revenue—hundreds of dollars, Nolan says. One AI agent dissects the input software to draft specs. Another, walled off from the original code, rebuilds from those specs alone. Tests follow for performance and bugs. The output? Functionally identical, but legally new. 404 Media broke the story on April 21, 2026, detailing how this echoes old-school clean room techniques but supercharges them with AI speed. Clean rooms aren’t new. Back in 1982, Columbia Data Products reverse-engineered IBM’s BIOS.…