Hi Gabriel, On 2026-07-28 at 10:40+02:00, Gabriel Wicki wrote: > GNU Kind Communication Guidelines: > > Likewise, be kind when pointing out to other contributors > > that they should stop using certain nonfree software. > > For their own sake, they ought to free themselves, > > but we welcome their contributions to our software packages > > even if they don't do that. So these reminders should be gentle > > and not too frequent—don't nag. > > [...] We must not include source code of questionable provenance > i.e. one that we are not sure whether we do would infringe copyright. > This is somewhat independent from LLM output, but has become > a greater issue since its wider usage adaption. > We need contribution guidelines.
One quick note: GCD 8 does not nag contributors to stop using LLM, but submitting their output. Because we don't know if each particular output has questionable provenance, the forbidence would free our members from the burden of perform such impossible check. Replace LLM with a stray book page found on the street, which can be consumed without any involvement of software, and the issue stays. I think after months of discussion, GCD 8 is rather clear between executing LLMs and incorporating their output in Guix. In addition, I'd like to mention GCD 8's withdrawal does not revert the request to GNU projects to not accept LLM-generated patches for the time being, as well as Codeberg's terms of use: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse.md To quote the latter's § 2 (1) 3 and § 2 (1) 7: > You must only share content on Codeberg > which you have the explicit right under copyright > and other laws to share under the legal terms > with which the content is made available on Codeberg. > > [...] code written by "generative AI"-tools > [has] an unclear copyright status Given the GCD repo is also hosted there, I don't think the GCD 9 jape should be entertained. Best wishes, Phong
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