Thank you so much for clarification! On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM Emond Papegaaij <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hi Emond... my concern was not regarding quality... I'm 100% sure you > will > > double check everything. I was thinking more about authorship. What is > the > > Apache Foundation's policy regarding this? Is the code generated by > Claude > > open source? Did Claude pass the Apache voting to become a committer > > somehow? Or is Claude considered a contributor? For sure Claude should > not > > be allowed to push to master or any other release branch (as Claude was > not > > accepted as a Wicket commiter). Thus, it would be good to know the Apache > > Foundation's policy regarding AI-authored code. And who owns the code > > created by Claude. > > > > Well, in fact they have: > https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html > > You are allowed to use AI to generate code. The rules seem very > straightforward and very like the code you would write yourself. They do > recommend to put the markers in, which Claude always does. > > The idea is that the code is not created by the AI. It's created by the > human instructing the AI. Just as we do not attribute the code to the file > editor writing it. This does mean you have to put creative effort into it. > This goes beyond just a single prompt. You need to make meaningful changes > and corrections. As long as you do that, the code is yours (at least that > where it stands at the moment). > > Emond > -- Regards - Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro Apache Wicket Committer Emerging artist https://www.instagram.com/reinaldo.barreiro.art/
