Just sent off a proposal to debian-vote to ban LLM-assisted contributions, surely this will go well ...

Well, now we are officially in the game:

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

#Debian

@kouett you can't, only DDs are elegible unfortunately.

@kouett well, never a better time than now. If you want to contribute any packages feel free to ask me in private.

Look mum, I'm on the (Linux) news now:
https://linuxiac.com/debian-developers-debate-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

@OdyX thanks!

@rodgerd ZFS can't indeed shipped because of copyright issues (Kernel is GPL-2.0vs CDDL). But I agree that not giving any thought at all whether LLM output is copyrightable while otherwise claiming to care about copyright is very hypocritical. And there is no clear definition on whether the output is copyrightable, or not.

Voting is now open:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00279.html

I just submitted mine, I hope one of the sane options wins. Mine would require a 3:1 majority which might be unlikely, here's to hoping. Though I could live with Proposal C too.

@nilesh huh, TIL. I assumed otherwise.