gedit
A general-purpose text editor for GNOME.
Unfriendly. Doesn’t accept AI-generated work.
Contributions generated by LLM tools and chatbots are not allowed anywhere in the project. The only exception is translating issue and comment text into English.
Policy by area
- Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
- Unfriendly
- Issues & bug reportsBug reports, security reports and issues found or written with AI tools.
- Unfriendly
- Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar)
- AI-written textPull request descriptions, issue comments and summaries written by AI.
- Unfriendly
- Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar)
In their own words
Code contributions
This project does not allow contributions generated by large languages models (LLMs) tools and chatbots. This ban applies to all parts of the project.
Issues & bug reports
An exception applies for purely translating texts for issues and comments to English.
AI-written text
An exception applies for purely translating texts for issues and comments to English.
Sources
- Gedit Development Guidelines: No Large Language Models AI toolsgitlab.gnome.org/World/gedit/gedit/-/blob/main/docs/guidelines/no-llm-tools.mdSnapshot 9 Oct 2026