Cline team got absorbed by OpenAI. Kilo is going full source available in response.

For those who used Cline with local models, heads up that the core team appears to have joined OpenAI's Codex group based on their LinkedIn profiles. No official announcement yet, but we have seen how these acqui-hires usually play out. Kilo Code (which forked from Cline and Roo Code) just responded by announcing they are making their backend source available by Feb 6. The VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, and CLI stay Apache 2.0(Open source). Their gateway supports 500+ models including Qwen, DeepSeek, and Mistral. They're offering $100 credits to anyone who contributed to Cline, and $150 per merged PR in February. If you want to keep building on an open codebase instead of watching another project disappear into a walled garden, might be worth checking out. The agentic coding space needs alternatives that work with local and open weight models. Would suck to see all the decent tools end up controlled by the big labs.