DLF Response to Generative AI and D: An Open Letter

[jmh530]

On Friday, 17 July 2026 at 11:59:27 UTC, Indraj Gandham wrote:
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> 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.

Let's suppose that someone uses an LLM to commit code to the D 
compiler that comes from a less permissive license. Since D 
compilers are all open source, people can scan the code and check 
vs other code. Assume the DLF is successfully sued, what do you 
think would be the most likely outcome from that? Or the 
potential outcomes?

And how would that impact you as a compiler user?