Re: GCC AI Policy Announcement

Sam James via Gcc <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:06:04 +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).
>
> That is one of the clearer points right now - LLM-generated code cannot
> be copyrighted.

Again, the GNU project guidance was to wait. Anyway, if this is the
case, you can launder any GPL project.

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