Is Auto Loader open source now in Apache 4.1 SDP?

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With Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) being open source now, does this mean that the Databricks Auto Loader functionality is also open source? Is it called something else? If not, how does the open-source version handle incremental data processing and schema inference/evolution?

Reference: Spark Declarative Pipelines Programming Guide - Spark 4.1.0 Documentation