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 # 🤖 MDAnalysis AI-generated contributions policy 🤖
 
-* Version: **1.1 (2026-02-17)**
+* Version: **1.2 (2026-05-29)**
 * License: **[CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)**
 
-This document defines the [MDAnalysis organization's](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/) policy regarding AI-generated content. This policy applies to all aspects of the MDAnalysis project, including all the GitHub repositories under the organization.
+This document defines the [MDAnalysis organization's](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/) policy regarding AI-generated content. This policy applies to all aspects of the MDAnalysis project, including all the GitHub repositories under the organization unless a project defines its own explicit AI Policy.
 
 For the purposes of this document, _content_ is defined as any contribution to the MDAnalysis organization, both code and non-code, including but not limited to:
 - Code submitted for inclusion in MDAnalysis, or other organization-owned repositories