Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected
An Emacs contributor's patch was rejected after they honestly disclosed that they used GitHub Copilot to help write it, as Emacs maintainers have a policy against contributions generated by AI tools like Copilot due to licensing and copyright concerns.
Background
- Emacs is one of the oldest and most powerful text editors, first released in 1976; it is free/open-source software maintained by the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Its development is famously conservative and heavily steered by its maintainer, Richard Stallman (RMS).