Hi,
On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 12:40:59AM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
- All code and work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool must
comply with the DFSG.
What would that mean in practice? What would I write in the copyright
stanza of a file that was created in an AI assisted way?
This is a clause that may backfire and be interpreted by one party as
"oh, this file was created with AI assistance and thus cannot be in
Debian since you can't put it under a DFSG free license".
+ they put any potential Signed-off-by tag and GPG signatures on the
contributions they send to the Debian infrastructure (package,
commit, mail, …) themselves;
So I need to sign all my commits that contain AI assisted code before
push, but I don't need to sign a commit that I typed with my brain only?
- Work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool should be marked as
such in the adapted place (commit message, changelog, …).
So when I apply one-line fix to AI assisted code I have to add a marker
in the commit message? What if I fix code in other people's packages?
Must I git blame / git log and sift whether that code I am fixing was
created with AI assitance?
Greetings
Marc
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