Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

> So as of today, the Copyright system does not have a way for the output of a non-human produced set of files to contain the grant of permissions which the OpenBSD project needs to perform combination and redistribution.

This seems extremely confused. The copyright system does not have a way to grant these permissions because the material is not covered under copyright! You can distribute it at will, not due to any sort of legal grant but simply because you have the ability and the law says nothing to stop you.

Re: Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

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Post by g0xA52A2A » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

Wow that thread just kept going. Whilst the LWN article covered most of the "highlights" I think this reply from Theo is pretty suscient on the topic at large [1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2

Re: Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

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Post by LeFantome » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

The article is largely about the copyright concerns of LLM generated code that was almost certainly trained on the GPL original.

Also, it is essentially an ext2 filesystem as it does not support journaling.

Re: Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

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Post by g0xA52A2A » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #4

It is amusing to see that the only concern seems to be about a confusion around licensing, not the validity or maintainability of the code itself.

Is it worth the effort to review until such implications are understood?