Re: [PATCH v2] docs/devel: relax policy on AI-generated contributions

On Sun, 2 Aug 2026 at 20:51, Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> So GCC has now decided that 15 lines or so is ok, if a maintainer
> decides so, and that one
> should only count significantly different changes, what they call,
> following the gnu maintainer guidelines "legally significant contributions":
>
>         A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
>         significant for copyright. A regular series of repeated changes, such as
>         renaming a symbol, is not legally significant even if the symbol has to
>         be renamed in many places.

That is more that the GNU project already had a level they defined
as legally significant, because they wanted it to determine whether
they needed copyright assignment or not. So it's natural for GCC to
use it also in their AI policy.

> GCC also makes an exception for tests and I guess we could make
> an exception for internal developer docs?

I don't think we should have AI generated docs, including
developer docs, as I noted somewhere up thread. That's not for
any particular copyright reasons, it's because we need actual
humans to be understanding and writing the documentation,
because it can't be easily cross-checked by tests.

-- PMM