Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:28:12 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 05:59:09AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 10:45:15AM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
>> 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.

That highly depends on the country we're talking about.

Greetings
Marc