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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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[โ€“] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (21 children)

Ok but how is anyone meant to know if you generated your docstrings using copilot?

[โ€“] SMillerNL 11 points 6 months ago

Are they long, super verbose and often incorrect?

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