Questions about binutils AI policy?

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jan 23 10:50:03 GMT 2026


Hi Guys,


>> It says "The GNU Binutils project is currently NOT accepting
>> LLM generated patches."
>>
>> However, the policy later on says "When submitting a
>> non-legally-significant LLM generated change..."
>>
>> It seems that this is contradictory because we don't allow
>> such content to be accepted, but if submitted it should be
>> marked up accordingly, but it will then be ignored.
>>
>> Should the discussion about markup be moved to the Footnotes
>> for a future policy discussion? 
Agreed, that does make more sense.

So I have taken the moved the offending paragraph to the footnotes
and reworded it to say:

   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.

Does that sound OK ?

Cheers
   Nick



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