Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add agent coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

Michal Hocko
2025-08-04T09:41:57Z

On Mon 04-08-25 11:23:22, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 28-07-25 09:05:37, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 12:47:55PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > We cannot keep complaining about maintainer overload and, at the same
> > > time, encourage people to bombard us with even more of that stuff.
> > >
> > > Clearly flagging stuff as AI-generated can maybe help. But really, what
> > > we need is a proper AI policy. I think QEMU did a good job (again, maybe
> > > too strict, not sure).
> >
> > So I've sent this series because I thought it's a parallel effort to the
> > effort of creating an "AI Policy".
> >
> > Right now we already (implicitly) have a policy as far as these
> > contributions go, based on
> > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai and the lack of
> > other guidelines in our codebase, we effectively welcome AI generated
> > contributions without any other requirements beyond the ones that affect
> > a regular human.
> >
> > This series of patches attempts to clarify that point to AI: it has to
> > follow the same requirements and rules that humans do.
>
> The above guidance is quite vague. How me as a maintainer should know
> that whatever AI tool has been used is meeting those two conditions
>
> : 1. Contributors should ensure that the terms and conditions of the
> : generative AI tool do not place any contractual restrictions on how the
> : tool’s output can be used that are inconsistent with the project’s open
> : source software license, the project’s intellectual property policies,
> : or the Open Source Definition.
> :
> : 2. If any pre-existing copyrighted materials (including pre-existing
> : open source code) authored or owned by third parties are included in the
> : AI tool’s output, prior to contributing such output to the project, the
> : Contributor should confirm that they have have permission from the third
> : party owners–such as the form of an open source license or public domain
> : declaration that complies with the project’s licensing policies–to use
> : and modify such pre-existing materials and contribute them to the
> : project. Additionally, the contributor should provide notice and
> : attribution of such third party rights, along with information about the
> : applicable license terms, with their contribution.
>
> Is that my responsibility?

OK, I can see this is discussed further down the thread https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250730130531.4855a38b@gandalf.local.home/T/#u

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs