Bex analyzes xAI’s Apache-2.0 release of the Grok Build coding-agent harness, arguing that the no-external-pull-requests policy leaves users with audit and fork rights but no upstream path for fixes, roadmap input, or shared security patches.
xAI Open-Sourced Grok Build — But You Can't Send a Patch: What Apache-2.0 Without Open Contributions Actually Grants You
Bex analyzes xAI's Apache-2.0 release of the Grok Build coding-agent harness, arguing that the no-external-pull-requests policy leaves users with audit and fork rights but no upstream path for fixes, roadmap input, or shared security patches.
Source: Bex