Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 10:41:04 GMT 2026


* Eli Zaretskii via Gcc:

>> Cc: Christopher Albert <albert@tugraz.at>,  Jonathan Wakely
>>  <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:00:08 +0200
>> From: Florian Weimer via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
>> 
>> It's already common practice to submit code on behalf of others.
>> When doing that, we don't know for certain if the code was not
>> copied from somewhere else.  Yet that practice has not been called
>> into question.
>
> It should be, though, at least IMO.

Why?  Some organizations have designated employees who are the only ones
authorized to submit open-source contributions.  (This applies to
contributions under DCO and under copyright assignment.)  If GNU
development procedures cannot accommodate this contribution process,
it's potentially a significant loss to the GNU project.

Thanks,
Florian



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