Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 03:39:10PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I was considering submitting a GCD. It needs more thought, but I guess
>> we should at least have a policy so the questions that started these
>> threads have a clear and immediate answer.
>
> What is the rush?
I don’t think there’s a rush, but two practical questions are coming up
more often:
1. What is the license of X, which has been vibe-coded? Can it be
packaged in Guix? Example: python-chardet 7.0.
2. What are our inclusion criteria for non-trivial LLM-produced
contributions? (Again: not policing whether contributors are using
LLMs, but looking that the cases where contributors claimed to use
them or make it evident, for instance with the presence of
‘CLAUDE.md’ file.)
Regardless of what one thinks of LLMs, both questions are very practical
due to the uncertainty of the copyright status of LLM output.
On top of that, there are of course concerns about the impact of LLMs as
a political project on free software and on society. This is a
different question though.
> Rather than racing to a statement or position, I would like to ask
> Guix to wait and see what other important free software projects do.
Yes, I’ve been waiting and looking at what others are doing:
* Linux
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/generated-content.rst
https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/
* Asahi Linux
https://asahilinux.org/docs/project/policies/slop/
* FreeBSD
https://www.heise.de/en/news/FreeBSD-policy-AI-generated-source-code-No-thanks-10634141.html
* Gentoo
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
* LLVM
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/docs/AIToolPolicy.md
* GNU binutils
https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/LLM_Generated_Content
* GNU gnulib
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-02/msg00064.html
Ludo’.
