On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 10:35:19AM +0100, Arian Ott wrote:
That said if we allow AI generated content in the archives and assign the copyright to the author technically speaking this won't work in the EU.As mentioned before, Debian is widely used for it's stability. If we allow AI generated contributions in the repos, we have a bigger risk of making Debian unstabler. Gentoo for instance banned AI for said reasons. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
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Remember Debian could run in nuclear power plants and i'm not sure if we want to take that burden on the maintainer if incidents occur.
Notably, even that Gentoo policy explicitly doesn't forbid AI contributions to the upstream parts of the distribution. So when you are talking about "archives", "repos" and stability of the distro as installed on someone's machine you seem to be talking partially or mostly about things that Gentoo didn't, as you said, ban.
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