NetBSD Foundation's New Policy on Code Generated by Large Language Models

TapTechNews May 17th news, the NetBSD Foundation has announced a new development policy: Code generated by large language models or similar technologies (such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) will be presumed to be contaminated (that is, with unclear copyright and not in line with the licensing goals of NetBSD), and thus cannot be submitted to NetBSD.

TapTechNews found in the NetBSD submission guidelines that they emphasized not to submit contaminated code to the code repository.

If the code you submit is not written by yourself, carefully check whether the license of the code allows it to be imported into the NetBSD source code repository and allows free distribution. Please contact the author of the code to ensure that they are the sole author of the code and confirm with them that no other code has been copied. Code generated by large language models or similar technologies is considered contaminated code and cannot be submitted without prior written approval from the core team.

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