Hi,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, that's a reasonable request.   But how do you think I should
proceed?   Make an issue on Numpy, and start drafting?   Start another
email thread?  Or a Discourse / Scientific Python thread?

Cheers,

Matthew
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