Re: [PATCH 3/3] docs/code-provenance: AI exceptions are in addition to DCO

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

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, ..."