GCC GSoC 2026: Call for project ideas and mentors

[Richard Biener]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM Ville Voutilainen
<ville.voutilainen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 at 20:36, Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If GSoC does not have, we should, at least, set a clear expectation as to
> > how usage of AI in completing the project is [not] allowed and should be
> > documented.
>
> Yes, please. The GSoC mentors' discussions I can find in my inbox
> don't exactly suggest such a clear policy
> being in place, and various participating organizations have their
> own. And I would venture a suggestion
> that such a policy should be there in general for GCC, not just for
> GCC GSoC projects.

The DCO, even though I think it's obvious, might also get a clarifying
amendment that what an AI tool produced is not obviously your work
or can be considered OK to contribute.  Same holds for people
contributing using FSF assignment - you can only assign sth you
have rights on.

Richard.

> In various places, people are being reminded, rather than newly told,
> that blindly merging LLM-generated code
> is as bad (and in some ways exactly as bad) as blindly copying code
> from a random internet site, even if the
> name of that site is "StackOverflow" and you really really like the
> site. The problems are identical, and such blind copying can't be
> accepted,
> due to copyright reasons.