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General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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Proposal A Proposer
Proposal A Seconds
Proposal A
Proposal B Proposer
Proposal B Seconds
Proposal B
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Discussion Period:<br>2026-07-24
Proposal A Proposer
Matthias Geiger [werdahias@debian.org]<br>[text of proposal]
Proposal A Seconds
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues [josch@debian.org] [mail]
Antoine Le Gonidec [vv221@debian.org] [mail]
Simon Richter [sjr@debian.org] [mail]
David Bremner [bremner@debian.org] [mail]
Pierre-Elliott Bécue [peb@debian.org] [mail]
Ian Jackson [iwj@debian.org] [mail]
Amin Bandali [bandali@debian.org] [mail]
Proposal A
Choice 1
Preamble
This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian written with<br>the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI<br>tools.
The scope of this GR is (non-exhaustive):
Debian source packages
Official Debian project software, such as lintian
Debian web resources
Documentation and translations added by Debian contributors
Official communication from Debian
It does not...