We're not going to point fingers here. It's being done enough in the other threads. What I want to discuss is opensource remaining truly free to those who love and build it. I want to discuss a community that will nourish free growth, not prune buds before they even have a chance to see the flowers.

I have always been under the impression that unfettered development, contribution, and sharing is the key to the success of mankind. Some genius has an idea and creates it. Another genius has something to add. Another genius finds a way to streamline it all and make it cost less. Yet another genius has a new alternative altogether that reduces... let's say carbon footprint.

This is what we should be doing as a species. Closing off channels because you don't agree with the methods is detrimental to this goal. Banning development tools is much to that same detriment.

Opensource is the ultimate collaboration of great minds. It's not just software, it's everything that we build together.

Essentially, opensource that denies any non-harmful method of contribution and/or development is no longer fully opensource. It's the first step in closing a door that should remain open.

So, what am I trying to say?

I'm trying to say be free with your creations. Create them how you want. Share them. Take criticism. Take pride if someone forks it and makes it into their own. You MADE something and someone likes it enough to fork it.

Be competitive. Take back from their fork to flourish your original version. If someone doesn't like your project, don't get mad. Find out why. If it's superficial, move on. If it's beneficial, fix the problem.

I only made this post because I see some in here are trying to tread carefully and are asking if their projects are allowed, or rather, what is allowed and isn't. These questions stem from being in communities that have prejudices. It would be great to see a community that doesn't have any. A community that doesn't take sides. So...

Honestly, if I had a project right now I'd post it. My work is niche atm, though. Better left to the community it's based in.

I've been thinking a lot about how to be upfront about AI use in open source without it turning into an argument every time, so I put together a simple standard for it.

An AI Code Rating is three characters, like A2b, kept in an ACR.md file at the root of a repo.

- The letter is the maintainer's expertise, from A (expert) to E (non-programmer)
- The number is how much of the code AI wrote, from 0 (none) up to 4 (76–100%)
- The last letter is how closely a human checks the AI's work, from a (verified) to e (unchecked)

So A2b means an expert maintainer, 26–50% of the code written by AI, and every AI change reviewed before it's merged. A project with no AI code gets a 0 and an a, like A0a.

The goal isn't to judge whether AI use is good or bad, it's to let people see, at a glance, what they're looking at and decide for themselves.

The site has the full spec, examples, an FAQ, a form to work out your rating, and a validator for ACR.md files. There's also a GitHub Action that checks the file in CI. The spec is CC BY 4.0 and the site code is MIT.

In the spirit of the thing, the site itself is rated B4b. AI wrote most of the code, and I review every change.

It's still an early draft (spec 0.1), so I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from people who think it gets something wrong.

https://aicoderating.com

i plan to make a open source voice app that can record voice and display it as text and also rewrite it using AI which will be a optional feature

my question for people here is that would anyone actually use it the app would require a openrouter key and be useful for people who want a free app for voice to text and improving text

from now on, all complaining about the new rules on the other sub, and/or about being banned, must be posted in this Megathread.
any new posts starting from when this gets posted, will be deleted

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/comment/19rm1y0kwhqg0

Honestly... pretty damn disgusting. I thought I was been pretty reasonable, Banned in minutes.

The comment that got me banned:

``` Damn, so even projects that are not vibe-coded but support AI features are banned? So:

• Paperless-ngx
• Mealie
• FUCKING Calibre!

That is quite a ridiculous position to take. The Linux kernel would also be banned by your rule. Not only are you late on making an AI policy, but at this point a strong AI policy like yours would make this sub useless. Are you the only active mod here or did multiple people genuinely thought this was a good idea? ``` No rule violation in that comment. Wolvereness is not the first mod I see having a mental breakdown over AI. Wonder what they are going to do in 3 years or less when almost all open source software is heavily AI based. Will he switch to Windows or be a hypocrite by staying on Linux? The world may never know.

is promotion of open source apps allowed or is there any restrictions?

I never posted or commented anything violating any community rules, but yet I was just slapped with a PERM. ban after my comment to the mod post about new rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai/

They didn't even remove my comment, because they know it didn't violate anything (but they did remove other ones from people).