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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