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CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂@yojimbo@masto.hackers.town (2026-09-29 06:46:42)
@chadmccullough @elementary Which BSDs are actually avoiding LLM contributions? I haven't done much research yet ... ?
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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.

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