I think the most immediate impact of slop forks will the the death of the open core business model. Open core here means having an OSS project with licenses like AGPL or BSL that allow anyone to derive from the software but only the original author to provide it as a multi-tenant platform. This is very different from Cloudflare slop forking next.js. They made a choice to slop fork, but they could have just pressed the trad-fork button in Github since next.js is MIT licensed. The licenses "protecting" open core software assume that making soften is hard, but they don't protect from a slop fork which reproduces the behavior without directly deriving from the license-encumbered implementation. What I'm not sure is whether this means less open source or more liberal licenses as folks realize that they might as well put it out there now that everybody can copy it anyway.