OpenWork, an opensource Claude Cowork alternative, is silently relicensing under a commercial license

OpenWork is a locally hosted AI agent harness that was presented as a MIT-licensed opensource Claude Cowork alternative based on opencode.

Just a heads up for any user of the app that it has silently relicensed some components under a commercial license and modified the overall project's MIT license to limit its reach (which I am not even sure makes it a MIT license anymore).

More details here: https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/issues/1412

Note that as a fellow opensource developer myself, I perfectly understand the need to secure income streams to be able to continue working on packages the public loves, but these changes were not announced anywhere and the likely AI-generated commit's description omitted the licensing changes, somehow...

/PS: I deleted a previous post because there was a typo in the title that made people think it was about OpenCode.

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