#operating

@brib@bribstodon.xyz @niko@gts.niko.lgbt oh sorry about that! it doesn't work in the open web for me either, even though it appears to be a public post. i'll just copy/paste since it was an informative post but all credit goes to @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.orgUntil today, I was under the impression that DragonflyBSD had no AI code committed, and that FreeBSD was "still deciding" but had a temporary "no AI" policy in place since mid-2025For FreeBSD, sadly whatever the policy is (or will eventually be), AI-generated code is already in FreeBSD source 😞(see examples in "AI code reviews" section https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems)For DragonflyBSD, "This code was almost fully generated by Claude Opus 4.5" https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=commit;h=41fb76421dce54f90c9cfb9f4f7e2993ae795266OpenBSD does not have a formal policy however I discovered this email from Theo De Raadt: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411863202734&w=2(openslopware https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems shows two commits listed demonstrating "permissive AI policy." These are actually "AI found the bug and a human wrote the code" which is as good as it gets now apparently)Theo's reply in the email talks of how the OpenBSD contributions policy https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html already makes clear that AI-generated code cannot be commited as the submitter does not have copyright (even though the policy does not specifically mention AI/LLM):"Renaud, I think you have it right.The document already makes it clear.It talks about how we've built a combined system from components which are usable and re-distributable with permissions (granted non-exclusively) by all the various people, authors, and creators.There are three important aspects:who can provide rights to that work the rights required by the project who can claim Copyright on a work to provide rightsCopyright is a legal right bestowed upon a human, or a collection of humans, which grants them exclusive control and -- by ?default -- prevents re-use and re-distribution.Check the treaties and the laws, and you'll find that Copyright is all about human output. (There are people dancing around trying to twist the laws, but their comments are in Azimov territory).In our software ecosystem we require the human (recognized under the law) to grant us a number of rights. Actually, we require those rights to be granted to everyone not just us (because there is no point in us participating in the redistributing of something that someone else cannot again redistribute). An ISC block does the best job showing the rights being granted.(1/2)