QEMU
Generic machine emulator and virtualizer.
Unfriendly. Doesn’t accept AI-generated work.
Contributions that include or derive from AI-generated content are declined over licensing concerns. Using AI for research, static analysis or debugging is fine if its output stays out of the patch.
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
In their own words
Code contributions
Current QEMU project policy is to DECLINE any contributions which are believed to include or derive from AI generated content.
Sources
- Code provenance — QEMU documentationwww.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/code-provenance.htmlSnapshot 9 Oct 2026