On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM Jerry D <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some of the various LLM services available appear to be getting very good at > generating bug fixes. I realize that one must be careful as these tools can at > times do things that may be superfluous to the actual fix. By superfluous I > mean > lines of code that are not relevant to the lines that fix it. > > I saw some discussions of this subject for gcc somewhere and wanted to know if > we have a specific policy established / documented somewhere regarding this.
There are legal issues affecting yourself if contributing under the DCO (you'll be liable) or with assigning to the FSF (I suppose you're liable towards the FSF in this case). A (Co-)AuthoredBy: LLM doesn't fix this. From my personal POV if you are happy to take full liability (in all senses, legal and technical), then using LLMs to make you more productive should be OK. But I'm waiting for some official policy from the SC. There's another bit of it with LLM agents possibly hammering on sourceware infrastructure (I'm thinking of bugzilla mostly). Richard. > Please advise. > > Best regards, > > Jerry
