elizaOS Founder Shaw Walters Says Pump.fun Code Was Not Open Source

elizaOS founder Shaw Walters said Wednesday, Nov. 11, that he had been wrong to call code in the GitHub repository lalalune/pumpfun-source open source. He said the code was not his and that he had no authority to publish, license or authorize anyone to use it. His post was timestamped 3:54 p.m. ET (8:54 p.m. UTC).

Shaw said the repository’s “Copyright (c) 2026 Shaw” notice and related license language were not valid licenses and granted no rights. He said neither his earlier remarks nor the repository’s licenses should be treated as permission to use, copy, fork, modify, build on or distribute the code.

He also urged users not to distribute or try to reverse-engineer Pump.fun code, which he said is protected by copyright. The clarification follows Shaw’s earlier argument that Pump.fun bytecode was publicly accessible, in which he said he had not obtained the platform’s source code and described his reverse-engineered work as original.