From: Nick Clifton Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:47:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Reword the section of the AI Acceptance Policy that refers to labelling submissions. X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1864c61d9c071aae2460a4d62d1eaf04616951c;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git Reword the section of the AI Acceptance Policy that refers to labelling submissions. --- diff --git a/binutils/MAINTAINERS b/binutils/MAINTAINERS index 0efbc1d839f..0bfcff0f59d 100644 --- a/binutils/MAINTAINERS +++ b/binutils/MAINTAINERS @@ -260,13 +260,6 @@ question of whether LLM generated output eventually makes it into the patch. If it does, then the patch is unacceptable. (Unless it can be considered legally insignificant). -When submitting a non-legally-significant LLM generated change, it is -still necessary to clearly indicate the use of the LLM. The -identification should take the form of a line starting with the -"Generated-By: " prefix which identifies the LLM used. For example: - - Generated-By: GNU-LLM version 1.0 - In addition all patch submissions must involve a human. Fully automated patch submission, whether by a bot, a script, or some other means is not acceptable. This is because only humans can sign a @@ -288,10 +281,16 @@ as the latter could be misunderstood. See [3] for more details. Nevertheless the policy applies to any kind of machine generated contribution where the copyright status is unclear. -The reason for requiring trivial LLM generated patches to be labelled -is to set a precedent. In the future, if non-trivial patches become -acceptable, the standard of labelling LLM submissions should already -be in place. +When submitting a non-legally-significant LLM generated change, it is +encouraged to clearly indicate the use of the LLM. The identification +could take the form of a line starting with the Generated-By: prefix +which identifies the LLM used. For example: + + Generated-By: GNU-LLM version 1.0 + +The reason for asking for this is to set a precedent. So in the +future, if non-trivial LLM generated patches do become acceptable, +the process of labeling them will already be a standard action. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model [2]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant