Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 10:45:15AM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> 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).

Copyright is automatic, copyright attributions are neither necessary nor 
sufficient for being an author.

>    Simon

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