On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:17 PM Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Just here should be fine. Take an existing PR that has copyrightable content (e.g. an entire new function or three, each more than ~10 lines, not just many one-line updates scattered around; the most interesting ones would be those that implement a known algorithm). Do the code search that would satisfy you. Write out here what you would want a PR author to provide. -- Robert Kern
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