This is a developer's perspective, not legal advice. I'm not a lawyer. What follows is my personal reading of publicly available licenses, policy documents, and one court decision. If you're making decisions about your module's legal exposure, talk to a lawyer.

The open source world is actively debating whether to accept AI-assisted contributions. QEMU, NetBSD, and Gentoo have said no. A lot of CPAN maintainers haven't written down a policy but have a reflex — if a PR looks AI-assisted, close it withou…

On March 17th, I installed a bot called koan on my personal Claude account. It's designed to monitor your four-hour usage limits, maintain a queue of "missions," and efficiently use your credits — even while you're sleeping.

Three weeks later, I had reviewed and merged 575 pull requests across 20 CPAN repositories, cut 58 releases across 17 of them, and caught memory leaks, security holes, and long-standing bugs that nobody had gotten around to fixing in years.

Some people think that means I let an AI commit unchecked code to…