On 23/07/26 at 15:38 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >... > > 2. **Licensing and Attribution:** If any pre-existing copyrighted materials > > (including pre-existing code licensed as free software) authored or owned > > by third parties are included in the AI tool’s output, prior to > > contributing such output to the project, the contributor should verify > > that such materials are available under a compatible license. > >... > > How do you personally verify for each of your AI-assisted contributions > whether the "If" applies to this output? > > To me this reads like an (unintentional) ban of using AI output in > Debian by creating a requirement that is impossible to fulfill.
In practice, when reviewing the code generated by an LLM in response to a prompt, I try to identify whether some of the provided code could be a simple regurgitation from code available elsewhere. In practice, in my experience it only happens with made-up examples designed to cause such regurgitation: in normal development workflows, the generated code is usually too context-dependant to risk including pre-existing copyrighted material. Lucas
