Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

[Giacomo Tesio]

Hi Richard

On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:40:36 +0200 Richard Biener wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 12:34 PM Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
> wrote:
> > for the record and future reference, can you please disclose what's
> > the first version of GCC including such LLM-generated code?  
> 
> As a project we should refuse to answer this kind of questions since
> we honestly cannot know to full extent.

to be fair, I didn't ask to the project, but to Albert, the author
of the patches and he can know to full extent.

Albert already stated he will mark LLM-generated future contributions

> From now on, I will add Assisted-by: to the patches.

which btw is a pretty common requirement these days, both in opensource
and in proprietary projects.

> We can say that all patches are either of irrelevant (to copyright)
> size, have clear copyright by virtue of FSF assignment, or were
> contributed under the DCO.

Sure, but transparently disclosing LLM-contributions would not
contraddict such statements / assignments.


After all, Albert himself agrees that he should have disclosed such info
before contributing his patches, so what's the problem to do it
retroactively?


Giacomo