NetBSD

Portable Unix-like operating system.

Unfriendly. Doesn’t accept AI-generated work.

Code generated by LLMs is treated as tainted and may not be committed without prior written approval from the core team.

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.: No policy
AI-written textPull request descriptions, issue comments and summaries written by AI.: No policy

is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

NetBSD Commit Guidelineswww.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.htmlSnapshot 9 Oct 2026