Re: [PATCH v3] CONTRIBUTING.d/ai: Add guidelines banning AI for contributing

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> writes:

> On 10/15/25 10:03 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 09:25:14AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>
>>> Needs a v4 so we can review the final CC-BY-SA-4.0 license requirements.
>> Oops, I missed that.  Sorry!
>> 
>>>> +Description
>>>> +	It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any
>>>> +	content that has been created with the assistance of artificial
>>>> +	intelligence tools.
>>>
>>> OK.
>>>
>>> Though it has been discussed on-list that this policy could be seen as
>>> forbiding assistive technologies, but that this was not the intent of
>>> the Gentoo Council's wording.
>> Didn't they?  Do you have a source for that?
>
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/5523336.irdbgypaU6@kona/
> ~~~
> As someone who was present at the initital discussion, I can assure that
> banning accessibility helps was not the intention.
> ~~~
> - Andreas Huettel

+1 (as someone else who also voted on it). We may amend it to make this
part clear in future.

>
>>> I don't have better wording.
>> Okay.
>> 
>>>> +Caveats
>>>> +	This policy can be revisited, should a case been made over such
>>>> +	a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical, and quality
>>>> +	concerns.
>>>
>>> The original content is CC-BY-SA 4.0, and so you need attribution and
>>> a link to the license and a statement that you altered it.
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>> This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
>>> Text derived from the [Gentoo project AI policy](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy), used under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
>> I'll send v4 later.  I have written this, at the bottom:
>> 	Copyright
>> 		SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
>> 		Text derived from the Gentoo project AI policy
>> 		<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy>.
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>