Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Simon Richter <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:45:15 +0900
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote |
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Hi,
On 7/24/26 3:57 AM, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
>> 4. **Explicit Disclosure:** When a significant portion of the contribution
>> is taken from a tool without manual modification, contributors should
>> disclose the tool's use. This may be recorded using Git trailers, such as
>> `Generated-By:` or `Assisted-By:`.
> I'd avoid proposing the tool here. I fear our commits will be infected by badly
> intended promotion of this or that tool. Perhaps you could rephrase it a bit to
> encourage the disclosure of AI usage, without mentioning the tool behind it
> specifically?
No, we need a single standardized machine-readable way.
The jury is still out on whether AI generated code can be copyrighted,
and if the decision ends up being that it cannot, we need to delete the
corresponding copyright attributions (as far as they don't overlap with
valid ones).
Simon