> From: Henrik Ahlgren <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:44:51 +0300 > > Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: > > > The _result_ is a relatively short message. The code changes > > themselves are not so short, so summarizing them in a short message > > might not be as trivial as you think for a non-native English speaker. > > Also, I have a very hard time imagining that using an LLM to generate a > short, highly specific commit message — or to improve a hand-written > one — would raise a copyright issue. It almost feels as though the risk > of using the exact same wording to describe a change as someone else has > used elsewhere is the same when a human writes the message: basically > just pure coincidence. Copyright does not "protect" individual words or > sentences, especially when we are not talking about poetry or song > lyrics or other works of art.
The problem was with the Co-Authored-By header, which could be interpreted as if the code was also written by LLM-based service, at least in part. That could confuse people into thinking that Emacs accepts code contributions which were written with LLM assistance. So we decided to remove the commit to prevent such confusion, even though the actual problem was does not raise any legal issues. --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
