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Re:Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions by fidorka on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:14AM (#47324389)
What do you mean?
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Re:Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions by LtWorf on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:29PM (#47327772)
A number of debian developers do that as part of their full time jobs for canonical, microsoft, and other companies.
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Re:Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions by PunchyHamster on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:45AM (#47332705)
If you see developer rooting for using MIT/BSD licenses and especially replacing GPL with them, there is probably good 98% chance of them being corporate programmer that legal didn't allow to use GPL-licensed code and they are sad they can't steal everyone's work
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Re:Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions by LtWorf on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:58AM (#47347374)
Last elections for DPL it was the stated goal of one of the candidates to reduce the amount of copyleft in debian.

At least they didn't win.

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