New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

  • Destide
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    341 month ago

    This is the only reason rules exist, not to stop people doing a thing but to be able to enforce or defect responsibility when they do.

    • @ripcord
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      71 month ago

      I mean, generally rules at least are to strongly discourage people from doing a thing, or to lead to things that WOULD prevent people from doing a thing.

      A purely conceptual rule by itself would not magically stop someone from doing a thing, but that’s kind of a weird way to think about it.