On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM brian m. carlson
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 2025-10-01 at 14:02:50, Christian Couder wrote:

quoted

+[[ai]]
+=== Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
+
+The Developer's Certificate of Origin requires contributors to certify
+that they know the origin of their contributions to the project and
+that they have the right to submit it under the project's license.
+It's not yet clear that this can be legally satisfied when submitting
+significant amount of content that has been generated by AI tools.

Perhaps we'd like to write this:

  It's not yet clear that this can be legally satisfied when submitting
  significant amount of content that has been generated by AI tools,
  so we cannot accept this content in our project.

If we're going to have a policy, we need to be direct about it and not
let people draw their own conclusions.  Many people don't have English
as a first language and we don't want people trying to language lawyer.

We could say something like this:

  Please do not sign off your work if you’re using an LLM to contribute
  unless you have included copyright and license information for all the
  code used in that LLM.

Would this mean that you wanted to ban contributions like d12166d3c8bb
(Merge branch 'en/docfixes', 2023-10-23), available on the list over
at https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1595.git.1696747527.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ (local)
?   We don't need to go theoretical, I've already contributed such a
patch series before -- 2 years ago -- and it was merged.  Granted,
that was entirely documentation, and I called out the usage of AI in
the cover letter, and I manually checked every change (discarding many
of them) and split it into commits on my own, could easily explain any
change and why it was good, etc.  And I was upfront about all of it.

If any use of AI is bad, do we need to revert that series?