On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM Matthew Brett via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Just to clarify - in case it wasn't clear, what I'm floating as a > proposal, would be something like this, as a message to PR authors: > > Please specify one of these: > > 1) I wrote this code myself, without looking at significant AI-generated > code OR > 2) The code contains AI-generated content, but the AI-generated code is > sufficiently trivial that it cannot reasonably be subject to copyright OR > 3) There is non-trivial AI-generated code in this PR, and I have > documented my searches to confirm that no parts of the code are subject to > existing copyright. > > So - the burden for the reviewer is just to confirm, in case 3, that the > author has documented their searches. We take the word of the contributor > for the option they have chosen. Obviously, the documentation requirement > of case 3 is somewhat of a burden for the contributor, and may therefore > encourage them to write the code themselves, to avoid that burden. That > might not be a bad thing, long term, for the project, and it seems > reasonable to me as some defence against copyright violation, and a message > that the project cares about such violation. > For Case 3, I would love to see an example of the search that you would accept. If you could take a recent PR (human or AI, doesn't really matter for this purpose), and show the search that would satisfy you, that would go a long way towards clarifying what you are asking for here. We'd need a worked example or two before adopting this policy because if I don't know what you are asking for, no new contributor will, either. -- Robert Kern
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