Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/

Widelands is a free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, and their developers appear to be setting a firm stance against any AI generated contributions. In case you missed it - back in December 2025 they had a big new release.

Since AI generation is a big topic right now causing all sorts of issues like hardware shortages including HDDs and Steam Decks along with price hikes everywhere, and with AI making a mess of other open source projects, it's interesting to see some projects come out completely against it.

Thanks so much for bringing this project into my sights! I'm so frustrated by Ubisoft for so many reasons, one is never making another decent settlers game, pioneers of pagonia never quite scratched the itch either.

I wish this were modeled after a later game in the series, but I'm so excited that someone has taken up this project.