Free and Open-Source Gaming

Blocking AI-Generated Content

The Widelands Development Team is drafting a resolution to reject AI-generated content contributions (code, graphics, music, and others) to the Widelands source code and repositories.

We hold that AI-generated content generally stands on dubious ethical and legal grounds, as it violates the copyright of creators whose work was scraped for the AI's training data set without their permission and without due attribution. Also, we find that it is frequently of low overall quality and/or is overly generic and fails to embrace requirements specific to Widelands.

Pull requests that have been generated by AI may in the future be closed without review.

Widelands is created by people, for people.

The change does not impact add-on uploads, which are each add-on author’s own responsibility, although such add-ons may be moderated more critically by the add-on server maintainers.
Translations are also not in the scope of this policy, and every language team can define its own policy with regard to machine translation.

The policy is still open to discussion here until Tuesday, February 24th, 2026.