Debian Votes to Allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"

450+ comments of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489982

Detailed vote results:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

Winning resolution:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/07/msg00018.html

Lucas Nussbaum reply:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00362.html

"I produced¹ another version of the results graph, with all pairwise results and percentages, so that it's easier to read, for example, that the community is split 64%/36% between the winning option and the most popular "ban" option (Debian is created by humans). Or 61%/39% with the most popular "discourage" option. (...)

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated "

And provided graph:

https://people.debian.org/~lucas/gr-2026-002/results.png