docs/code-provenance: clarify scope very early

The AI policy in QEMU is not about content generators, it is about generated
content.  Other uses are explicitly not covered.  Rename the policy and clarify
its scope in the TL;DR section, as a matter of convenience to the reader.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst b/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
index b5aae2e2532ee26b1e87b2474653b445885ba293..dc3524ac177e346e566edae85ecd6087879cb70f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/code-provenance.rst
@@ -285,8 +285,8 @@ Such tools are acceptable to use, provided there is clearly defined copyright
 and licensing for their output. Note in particular the caveats applying to AI
 content generators below.
 
-Use of AI content generators
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Use of AI-generated content
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 TL;DR:
 
@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ TL;DR:
   believed to include or derive from AI generated content. This includes
   ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Llama and similar tools.**
 
+  **This policy does not apply to other uses of AI, such as researching APIs
+  or algorithms, static analysis, or debugging, provided their output is not
+  included in contributions.**
+
 The increasing prevalence of AI-assisted software development results in a
 number of difficult legal questions and risks for software projects, including
 QEMU.  Of particular concern is content generated by `Large Language Models
@@ -322,10 +326,6 @@ The QEMU project thus requires that contributors refrain from using AI content
 generators on patches intended to be submitted to the project, and will
 decline any contribution if use of AI is either known or suspected.
 
-This policy does not apply to other uses of AI, such as researching APIs or
-algorithms, static analysis, or debugging, provided their output is not to be
-included in contributions.
-
 Examples of tools impacted by this policy includes GitHub's CoPilot, OpenAI's
 ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Code Llama, and code/content
 generation agents which are built on top of such tools.