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"If I don't know you, I don't merge you"

And if you catch somebody submitting code they can't explain, you don't know them anymore.

It's really simple. Open source has always had a social layer. Github culture tries to eliminate it, and that's the source of this vulnerability.

If they had a policy to ban German speakers from submitting code to OpenJDK, it would have the same effect. None at all, which is maybe the point. It's another tool to categorize submissions/submitters they find problematic.

First thought I had too. I deliberately strip AI metadata from my PRs in certain orgs.

First time you're caught, you are no longer a project contributor and your deceptive conduct will be forwarded to all other major open source projects with warnings that your code cannot be trustworthy and is a well documented legal liability. How's that sit with you?

This is inherently deceptive.