I recently had a discussion on Mastodon that was sparked by a post of the Software Freedom Conservancy about the handling of LLM-gen-AI submissions. There are many people who are very opposed to letting LLM-generated code into their projects. This is an understandable standpoint given concerns like legality, unethical sourcing, resource usage, and concentration of power.

Apart from that, it is completely reasonable for a maintainer to set rules for submissions. A FOSS license doesn’t mean that a maintainer even has to interact with anyone. It just provides the source.