# OpenJDK: Not AI-friendly

> An interim policy bans content generated in part or in full by LLMs or similar systems, covering code, text, images, pull requests, e-mail, wiki pages and issues. Contributors may still use AI privately to understand, debug and review code, as long as none of its output is contributed.

- What it is: The open source reference implementation of the Java platform. (Programming language)
- Homepage: https://openjdk.org/
- Repository: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
- Overall stance: Not AI-friendly (Unfriendly). AI-generated contributions are not accepted; at most minor help such as autocomplete or grammar fixes.
- Last classified: 2026-10-09 (manual review, high confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/openjdk/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: Not AI-friendly
- **Issues & bug reports**: Not AI-friendly
- **AI-written text**: Not AI-friendly

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "Contributions in the OpenJDK Community must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems." (https://openjdk.org/legal/ai)
- Issues & bug reports: "Content, in this context, includes but is not limited to source code, text, and images in OpenJDK Git repositories, GitHub pull requests, e-mail messages, wiki pages, and JBS issues." (https://openjdk.org/legal/ai)
- AI-written text: "Content, in this context, includes but is not limited to source code, text, and images in OpenJDK Git repositories, GitHub pull requests, e-mail messages, wiki pages, and JBS issues." (https://openjdk.org/legal/ai)

## Sources

- [OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI](https://openjdk.org/legal/ai), fetched 2026-10-09