On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM Andreas Enge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 02:59:40PM +0000 schrieb Greg Hogan: > > The GCD process does not preclude the project from temporarily > > rejecting LLM-authored legally significant contributions while waiting > > on legal guidance from the GNU Foundation. This is a perfectly > > reasonable step to take while we improve our tracking of copyright > > status. This would need to be added to the user documentation and pull > > request template. > > In the absence of consensus, who would be legitimate to add non- > consensual regulations to the manual? I would argue that this would > need another GCD, since the topic is controversial; and then we > perfectly go in circles.
Anyone could contribute this change. We do not need a consensus document to remain a GNU project and follow GNU legal guidance. That is preexisting consensus. It would require a GCD to leave GNU. And apart from being preexisting consensus and a legally necessity, I have yet to hear anyone express any disagreement for doing this precautionary restriction. This does not require a de facto permanent ban on AI.
