Sure it's a contract, but what you describe is how bad actors will destroy the opensource movement.

You know how some countries have high-trust societies even without specific norms and others definitely don't? Same thing. Opensource needs high-trust and a community that punish some undesirable behaviors and who doesn't follow unwritten, but obvious, rules.

> so Asahi loses the ability to forbid downstream users from using AI to modify the source code.

Did anyone suggest they want to do this? It's in their own Asahi that they don't want AI.