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Debian's Generative AI Vote Resolves to 'Responsible Use' — and Explicitly Discourages Disclosing That You Used AI
Debian's General Resolution closed August 29 with Option 5, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' winning the Condorcet ballot with 281 votes out of a 1,045-developer electorate; all eight options cleared the 48.49 quorum. The text holds contributors to identical quality, correctness and legal standards regardless of tool, and puts responsibility on the submitter — but it discourages rather than mandates disclosing AI use, which is the opposite of the Linux kernel's attribution requirement. The two stricter anti-AI options (1 and 3) lost to 'None of the Above,' and the HN thread hit 490 points and 456 comments.
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