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…