On 9/29/25 09:54, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 22.09.2025 um 17:48 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
Using phrasing from https://openinfra.org/legal/ai-policy (with just
"commit" replaced by "submission", because we do not submit changes
as commits but rather emails), clarify that the contributor remains
responsible for its copyright or license status.
I feel here the commit message is clearer than...
+Exceptions do not remove the need for authors to comply with all other
+requirements for contribution. In particular, the "Signed-off-by"
+label in a patch submissions is a statement that the author takes
+responsibility for the entire contents of the patch, including any parts
+that were generated or assisted by AI tools or other tools.
...the actually committed text. We should probably mention "copyright or
license status" explicitly here in some way instead of just a more
generic "responsibility for the entire contents" without referring to
copyright.
It's mentioned earlier, since the responsibility is not limited to
exceptions: "To satisfy the DCO, the patch contributor has to fully
understand the copyright and license status of content they are
contributing to QEMU". I find this sentence to be already a bit heavy,
and would prefer not to make it longer.
Paolo
Maybe something like "...responsibility for the entire contents of the
patch and in particular its copyright or license status, ..."
