Post #1602373
2026-03-05 19:54 UTC
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@ehashman@cloudisland.nz 2026-03-05 20:04
@foolishowl @zerodogg what is the objection to specifically, though? Large language models as a technology, or specific vendors? Debian is never going to hand out licenses for an Anthropic or OpenAI product simply on the basis that they're proprietary software. But it's not like the project has ever *banned* the use of a paid, proprietary IDE to support one's work—how would it even know? There exist LLMs trained on public, open data sets with public weights that can run on a personal machine, and would appear to be suitable for inclusion in Debian—are these tools also objectionable? If the goal is "completely halt use of LLMs as a technology used in any form", I don't think it's realistic to expect Debian Developers to be able to accomplish this.