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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

[–] djb@social.shirow.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cstross@wandering.shop 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@djb @dgerard It' could be undermined by Linus's tolerance of AI slop in the kernel, and by other upstream projects accepting LLM code, notably (to me) vim and pandoc.

The unknown original provenance of code generated by LLMs means that many open source projects may soon be in violation of their own license terms.

[–] chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2 points 20 hours ago

@cstross @djb @dgerard the proposal starting with copyright was such a welcome change, I find it wild how many projects just have their head on the sand over the copyright status of LLM generated code. You can be unethical as you like generating code, open source licences permit that, but they are all about copyright, they are built on it.

[–] djb@social.shirow.net 4 points 1 day ago

@cstross @dgerard 😮‍💨 yea. It’s all getting to be a bit too much.

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