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Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary

Debian developers voted through August 28 to reject a ban on LLM-generated contributions, instead adopting a non-binding policy that encourages voluntary disclosure of AI assistance, according to project secretary Kurt Roeckx. The decision leaves review processes unchanged, with no requirement for contributors to label AI-written code.

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A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through August 28, and Kurt Roeckx, the project secretary, announced the result: the winning option encourages contributors to disclose AI assistance and stops there. Review stays where it was. A sponsor up a package, a security team member reading a patch for a stable release, and a downstream … More

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