GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem?

No? Did you read my post? The problem is the lack of attribution.

I fail to see why they also need to mention Mononoke when they already attributed inspiration to Sapling, when Mononoke is a component of Sapling.

	▲	zamalek 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Having your AI rewrite a projects is a very different level of "inspiration" than normal inspiration. What would you classify the rust rewrite of Bun as? Because that's what we're looking at here.