Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  albert@tugraz.at,  jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:41:04 +0200
> 
> * 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.

My comment was a general one.  Your counter-argument, OTOH, brings up
a very specific example, in which perhaps a close scrutiny of the
situation would conclude that there's no problem in such cases.  But
my point is that such a practice _in_general_ cannot be accepted IMO
without seriously questioning it.  A close scrutiny of each case of
such submissions basically means that the policy in general is
invalid.