r/opensource bars AI projects and tightens posting rules
Original title: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them
Projects must be a year old, OSI-licensed, and have an existing community plus subjectively three or more contributors.
Moderators of Reddit’s r/opensource barred projects that use AI, are made by AI, or are intended for AI. Moderator Wolvereness also required projects to be at least a year old and actively maintained, carry an OSI license, have a community, and “subjectively 3+” contributors, while posters need a year-old account with significant Reddit activity. Asking for an exception after a failed post draws a permanent ban. A nine-year solo-maintained package with no AI no longer qualifies, and another moderator objected to the non-English rule.
Unconfirmed: Whether the Linux kernel is covered is an argument by commenters, not a moderator ruling.
- Wolvereness tied the exception ban to an estimate of 20 messages a day.
- Non-English speakers are told to find another community.
- Approved registered nonprofits can skip the project and account minimums.
- Wolvereness said there is no objective way to apply the AI rule.
- Commenters asked whether Linus Torvalds’s AI use would bar the Linux kernel.
- Organizations
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Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules in a post over the weekend. A project now has to be at least a year old and actively maintained, carry an OSI license, have an existing community and “subjectively 3+” contributors.
By Mirko Zorz · helpnetsecurity.com
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