Thanks Peppe, for bringing this up! I see the same trend and IMHO a QUIP would be helpful to provide some guidance.
As a reviewer I try to find out quickly whether AI was used as a tool to enhance productivity, while the developer owns the code. That means the developer is able to answer questions and respond to comments quickly. Apart from copyright concerns, I find it particularly hard to review monster-commits of AI created content without developer ownership. Confidential ________________________________ From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 20 July 2026 09:27 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Development] AI-generated contributions to Qt Hi, I see more and more patches in Qt being written with the assistance of AI tools. (For the sake of brevity, I'm putting everything under the same umbrella, from "LLM improved the English spelling in my commit message" to "this 10'000-lines patch is 100% AI product I didn't even review it") Do we have a policy in that regard? Especially one for external contributors, who are supposed to honor the CLA, which (amongst other things) implies things like: > Licensor represents and warrants that it or its Affiliate is the owner of the > Licensor Contribution(s) and that it > or its Affiliate(s) has the authority to grant the licenses thereto set forth > in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of this > Agreement. which is pretty much a gray area right now. (The CLA is under UK law.) I guess that, since such patches have landed, we generally accept AI-generated contributions? Can we have a formal statement in that regard? Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo | [email protected] | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kdab.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cc9b178763b564b2232be08dee6309d7b%7C20d0b167794d448a9d01aaeccc1124ac%7C0%7C0%7C639201293735715173%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lyHM6xU6KNoG7ashpvWjPBlASaXSogV8QSotyMcttt4%3D&reserved=0<http://www.kdab.com/> KDAB - Trusted Software Excellence
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