alt Hacker NewsBasically the rules are that you can use AI, but you take full responsibility for your commits and code must satisfy the license.
That's... refreshingly normal? Surely something most people acting in good faith can get behind.
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It cannot be understated how religiously opposed many in the Linux community are to even a single AI assisted commit landing in the kernel no matter how well reviewed.
Plenty see Torvalds as a traitor for this policy and will never contribute again if any clearly labeled AI generated code is actually allowed to merge.
I wish everyone could be so rational, well reasoned, and balanced on this subject.
But then if AI output is not under GNU General Public License, how can it become so just because a Linux-developer adds it to the code-base?
But why should AI then be attributed if it is merely a tool that is used?
I agree this is very sane and boring. What is insane is that they have to state this in the first place.
I am not against AI coding in general. But there are too many people "contributing" AI generated code to open source projects even when they can't understand what's going on in their code just so they can say in their resumes that they contributed to a big open source project once. And when the maintainer call them out they just blame it on the AI coding tools they are using as if they are not opening PRs under their own names. I can't blame any open source maintainer for being at least a little sceptical when it comes to AI generated contributions.