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simonw • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The new policy says:

> If we subsequently discover that you have used an AI, LLM, or any agent-based workflow for your contribution, you will be subject to code reversion and contributor rights sanctioning.

Policies like this have an element of trust to them. That's not new: open source projects have needed to trust contributors not to paste in proprietary licensed code since open source began.


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alienbaby • yesterday at 1:50 PM

"If we subsequently discover"

hmm. What if they didnt realise at first because the code is actually fine and works as intended. They gonna back it out just because it was AI?

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