On 21/03/2026 18:17, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> I have looked at the diffs.
> 
> There is a claim that University of California holds copyright over large
> chunks of code which are new.  These are perhaps mostly copied, but have
> been changed in novel ways.  I didn't dig deep enough to decide if the
> changes are trivial or complicated, I just looked at the volume.
> 
> There is a different claim that you hold copyright over large chunks of
> new code.
> 
> Amongst that, there are pieces containing structures, and CRC, which you
> claim you actually wrote.  You may have used AI tooling to do that.
> 
> But that leaves the situation that large chunks of new code do not have
> provenance under Copyright law.  You did not write them, you said an AI did.
> Then you, or the AI, put a Copyright notice at the top of those files.
> 
> That is a legal statement that this is a new work by a human creator.
> But a human creator didn't do this.
> 
> Since every file in OpenBSD has been continually verified to ensure
> correct Copyright, and we've even deleted code which has incorrect
> Copyright, the chances of us accepting such new code with such a suspicious
> Copyright situation is zero.

Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only 
allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more 
requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.

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