Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

Am 17.04.26 um 21:59 schrieb Jonathan Wakely via Gcc:
> The paper shows that the models*can* reproduce copyrighted work
> almost verbatim. Claiming that it's just a load of weights and you
> can't retrieve anything significant from the training data isn't true
> if you can tell it to reproduce something. And if you don't prompt it
> to do that on purpose, you don't know that it isn't still doing it
> anyway.

While this is a concern in general (and I have my own reservations
about LLM-generated code) this should not be a concern for patches for
gcc.

A patch for gcc has to apply and work.  For anything not completely
trivial this means that it has to tie in with gcc's data structures
and algorithms.  A non-trivial patch that is an exact copy of somebody
else's work has to come from a gcc branch.  So it is already covered
by the GPL v3 (or v2, for very old versions).

Best regards

	Thomas