Open Source Says No

A neutral, informational list of open source projects and their policies on AI-assisted or AI-generated contributions.

16 projects

Linux kernel

Restricted

GitHub Operating system 251,683 stars Verified

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Policy quote
You are expected to understand and to be able to defend everything you submit. If you are unable to do so, then do not submit the resulting changes.

Node.js

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GitHub Language 122,335 stars Verified

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The Node.js project does not prohibit the use of AI tools in contributions, but when the contribution is generated with AI, the contributor should disclose the use of such tools

Rust

Restricted

GitHub Language 119,754 stars Verified

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It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to **create**.

Ghostty

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GitHub Application 62,120 stars Verified

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All AI usage in any form must be disclosed. You must state the tool you used (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Amp) along with the extent that the work was AI-assisted.

Mastodon

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GitHub Application 50,375 stars Verified

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We generally *do not encourage* AI-assisted contributions

curl

Assist allowed

GitHub Tooling 43,189 stars Verified

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We can accept code written with the help of AI into the project, but the code must still follow coding standards, be written clearly, be documented, feature test cases and adhere to all the normal requirements we have.

LLVM

Restricted

GitHub Language 41,024 stars Verified

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Contributors are expected to be transparent and label contributions that contain substantial amounts of tool-generated content.

Servo

Banned

GitHub Tooling 38,132 stars Verified

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Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools, including but not limited to Copilot or ChatGPT.

Redox OS

Banned

GitHub Operating system 16,616 stars Verified

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Redox OS does not accept contributions generated by LLMs

QEMU

Banned

GitHub Tooling 13,843 stars Verified

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Current QEMU project policy is to DECLINE any contributions which are believed to include or derive from AI generated content. This includes ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Llama and similar tools.

Zig

Banned

Codeberg Language 6,836 stars Verified

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  • issues
Policy quote
No LLMs for patches / pull requests.

Codeberg

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Codeberg Forge Verified

  • code
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You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*).

Debian

Assist allowed

self-hosted Operating system Verified

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Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development, maintenance, or documentation of software, packaging, documentation, and other media published within the Debian Project.

Fedora Project

Assist allowed

self-hosted Operating system Verified

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You MAY use AI assistance for contributing to Fedora, as long as you follow the principles described below.

Gentoo Linux

Banned

self-hosted Operating system Verified

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It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools.

NetBSD

Restricted

self-hosted Operating system Verified

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Policy quote
Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.