On Feb 11, 2026, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi - >> [...] >> The elfutils project does not currently accept contributions >> containing output generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) [4]. Use >> of LLMs to research, analyze or debug a contribution is allowed as >> long as no LLM-generated output is included in the contribution. [...] > For the record, I believe this is a not the best approach. > For a contribution to be submitted and accepted, all the elfutils > project needs in a legal sense is the DCO sign-off. From a practical > sense, it needs someone who is willing to stand behind the patch, > respond to reviews and future bug reports. https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf https://zomglol.wtf/users/jamie/statuses/116059523957674208 says: If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase IANAL, I don't know whether the claim is accurate, but it sure suggests there's merit in some caution if there's any intent of doing enforcement on any license conditions whatsoever in the US, on this project or any other that doesn't take care to clearly mark LLM outputs in contributions. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/ Free Software Activist FSFLA co-founder GNU Toolchain Engineer Learn the truth about Richard Stallman at https://stallmansupport.org/
