DLF Response to Generative AI and D: An Open Letter

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Fri Jul 17 13:54:15 UTC 2026


On 17/07/2026 11:59 PM, Indraj Gandham wrote:
> Nevertheless, I agree with your conclusion: those who believe that DLF's 
> course of action is legally irresponsible (in all jurisdictions) have no 
> recourse but to seek their own counsel or switch to an alternative fork 
> such as OpenD. I have now done the latter, but I am also aware of at 
> least two new forks of D with LLM contributions removed. These will 
> probably track upstream more closely.

I look forward to seeing a D person having forked the linux kernel, for 
the exact same reasons, and then an entire distro to go with it.



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