Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:33:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 12:40:59AM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> - All code and work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool must
>   comply with the DFSG.

What would that mean in practice? What would I write in the copyright 
stanza of a file that was created in an AI assisted way?

This is a clause that may backfire and be interpreted by one party as 
"oh, this file was created with AI assistance and thus cannot be in 
Debian since you can't put it under a DFSG free license".

>   + they put any potential Signed-off-by tag and GPG signatures on the
>     contributions they send to the Debian infrastructure (package,
>     commit, mail, …) themselves;

So I need to sign all my commits that contain AI assisted code before 
push, but I don't need to sign a commit that I typed with my brain only?

> - Work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool should be marked as
>   such in the adapted place (commit message, changelog, …).

So when I apply one-line fix to AI assisted code I have to add a marker 
in the commit message? What if I fix code in other people's packages? 
Must I git blame / git log and sift whether that code I am fixing was 
created with AI assitance?

Greetings
Marc