- Sources: primary, ballot, discussion
- Summary: The corrected ballot from the Project Secretary sets the voting window at 2026-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-28 23:59:59 UTC with nine ranked choices. The options run from a Social Contract clause banning LLM-assisted contributions to explicit permission conditioned on tooling licence compatibility, accountability and a disclosure trailer such as Generated-By. This archive covered the resolution opening on 2026-07-25 and growing to four proposals on 2026-07-26.
- Why it matters: Debian sits upstream of a large share of deployed Linux, so the winning option becomes the reference policy other distributions and forges are measured against.
- Follow-up: Record the result after voting closes on 2026-08-28.
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