Re: Current policy on AI-generated code in NumPy

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, at 15:12, Evgeni Burovski wrote:
> 
>> 3. be careful not to breach any copyright or license terms (yes, we
>> take those seriously!).
>> 
> 
> For a contributor this recommendation is not easily actionable. "I used a tool X and it gave me this code" --- how to make sure I understand the code, this is clear yes I can do that; how am I meant to carefully check for copyright?

It's near impossible, so I suspect the only way to truly play it safe is to only provide code that cannot reasonably be copyrighted.

> So maybe it'd be helpful to have a link to some guide, however rough, plus some reading material.
> Or (am putting a maintainer hat on) maybe we want to ask the contributor to show some analysis. As in, "this code is only a refcounting fix where the origin traces straight to CPython docs" vs "this code can be traced to this Stackoverflow answer" (BTW, what's the copyright status of that?)

CC-BY-SA

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public

> (I planned to stay out of this thread)

😉

Stéfan

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