[License-discuss] AI-generated emails

[Bruce Perens]

I did notice a recent poster was using a latin parody of my name.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM Nick Vidal <nick.vidal at opensource.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We would like to apologize for the various emails that were sent recently,
> which were found to be AI generated.
>
> We do not allow posts generated by AI without careful review from the
> author and will reject posts where we suspect that an AI has been
> responsible for all or most of a message.
>
> The use of AI to help members to better understand and respond to a
> complex topic, especially when the discussions are in a foreign language
> and very legalese, is appropriate for the purpose of making the discussions
> more accessible.
>
> However, we have identified that license-discuss and license-review are
> being used as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate that an AI system can
> autonomously engage and even draft an open source license for review.
>
> We believe that this behavior goes against the "Respect time and
> attention" from our Code of Conduct <https://opensource.org/codeofconduct>.
> We'll be updating it to better reflect the use of AI.
>
> We would like to thank one of our members who provided valuable feedback
> on this matter. We'll share more details soon.
>
> Thank you all for your comprehension.
>
> Kind regards,
> OSI Moderators
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Bruce Perens K6BP
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