Personally, without any legal aspect: If you did a deep review and are happy with the changes in your cosebase: go for it
Werner Punz <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa., 2. Mai 2026, 09:00: > Hi guys, I spent the last two days working over the Ajax codebase, > however, I used AI tooling starting from the typescript 5 to 6 > transition and ending up with about 100 testcases added > and fixed one smaller bug after ai analysis in the XHR Response processing > and several severe lifecycle bugs in the Websocket area! > > According to the ASL, AI tooling is allowed as long as there are > disclosure markers and a disclosure file and as long as the changes stem > from human prompts > (Then it is seen as software tooling > https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html) I additionally > despite having the code reviewed manually also ran two different AIs for > GPL.. etc... breaches, but they came to the same conclusion, as I did this > is original code based > on what I already did before and based on my prompts. So from an ASF legal > perspective this code would be clean. > > The added disclosure file would be (note substantial changes mostly are > code cleanup after having the test coverage in place) and newly generated > files have an ai marker > > # AI Contributions Disclosure > > In accordance with the [Apache Software Foundation policy on generative AI > tooling](https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html), this file > discloses that portions of this project were created or substantially > modified with assistance from generative AI tools. > > ## Tool used > > **Claude** (Anthropic) — conversational AI coding assistant > > ## Scope > > All new source files and substantial modifications introduced from the > TypeScript 6 migration onwards (starting with commit `d609321`) were produced > with AI assistance. This covers both production source code and test code. > > ### Newly created files (AI-generated) > > - `src/main/typescript/@types/definitions/modules.d.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/api/JsfPushShimTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/api/PushTypeCompatibility.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/AssertionsTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/FileUtilsTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/ResponseDataResolverTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/util/ExtLangTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/util/HiddenInputBuilderTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/WebsocketTest.spec.ts` > > ### Substantially modified files (AI-assisted) > > - `src/main/typescript/api/_api.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/api/faces.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/api/jsf.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/AjaxImpl.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/PushImpl.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/Assertions.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/AsyncRunnable.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/ExtDomQuery.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/FileUtils.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/HiddenInputBuilder.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/Lang.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/util/XhrQueueController.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/ErrorData.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/EventData.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/IResponseProcessor.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/RequestDataResolver.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/Response.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/ResponseDataResolver.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/ResponseProcessor.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/XhrFormData.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/impl/xhrCore/XhrRequest.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/myfaces/OamSubmit.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/frameworkBase/_ext/monadish/DomQueryTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/frameworkBase/_ext/shared/StandardInits.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/impl/util/ExtDomQueryTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/myfaces/OamSubmit.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/queue/AsynchronousQueueTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/ErrorChainTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/FakeWebsocket.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/RequestTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/ResponseTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/TobagoFileUploadTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/test/xhrCore/XhrFormDataTest.spec.ts` > - `src/main/typescript/@types/definitions/index.d.ts` > > ## Nature of AI assistanc > > The AI assistant was used interactively: the human author directed the work, > reviewed all output, made corrections, and approved each change before it was > applied. The AI did not commit code autonomously. All contributions remain > under the Apache License 2.0. > > > The problem is now jus,t how is the projects point of view regarding such > a commit, given we have companies using it, is such a commit > allowed or not! > If not then I will start from fresh manually with the transition to ts6, I > know where the pitfalls are and also I now know the bugs, but this will > take some time. > > > Werner > >
