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River Tae Smith (he/him)@river@lingo.lol (2026-09-29 11:31:00)
@yojimbo @chadmccullough @elementary 

Neither OpenBSD and NetBSD allow LLM code, because they consider it to be (copyright) tainted

OpenBSD's policies¹ don't specifically name LLMs but they have said elsewhere that LLM code doesn't have an author who could grant OpenBSD licence to use it²

NetBSD specifically mentions LLM extrusion³ but says it ⋆could⋆ be merged with permission from the core team

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
[2]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411923203008
[3]: https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html#tainted
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bpl@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-10-06 20:01:46)
OpenBSD's policies¹ don't specifically name LLMs but they have said that they consider it to not have an author who could grant OpenBSD licence to use it²

This is a theory, the practice is that OpenBSD accepts LLM-generated code. It is included in tmux, LLVM and Xenocara.

CC: @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social

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💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-10-06 21:07:44)
@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe @river@lingo.lol @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social llvm and xenocara are 3rd party components, in no way does openbsd have the resources to fork x11 or llvm compiler to maintain slopfree versions.