Re: GCC AI Policy Announcement

Sam James via Gcc <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:21:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.fortran
Organization Gentoo
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Thomas Koenig via Gcc <[email protected]> writes:

> Am 01.08.26 um 21:00 schrieb Sam James:
>>> What happens if a patch contains a non-trival amount of code that
>>> cannot be copyrighted because it was assisted by AI?
>> The open questions around this are why the GNU project issued
>> provisional guidance to reject significant contributions developed with
>> an LLM.
>> If it is copyrightable, then who owns the copyright? If it's based
>> on
>> the training data, then the contributor may not have the rights to
>> share such a patch, and it cannot be legally redistributed under the GPL
>> (or any licence).
> [...]
>
> To put it bluntly: The current policy is based on a risk assessment
> that nobody shares

Here's a few that come to mind:

* https://openjdk.org/legal/ai
* https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html
* the GNU project overall
* https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/code-provenance.html#use-of-ai-generated-content

sam

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