Banning LLM-generated or assisted contributions to the GNU C Library

Collin Funk collin.funk1@gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 20:03:47 GMT 2025


Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> writes:

> Thank you for raising this! :-)
>
> I've read the thread.
>
> And the binutils one: https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/878qhth0zt.fsf@redhat.com/
>
> At a high level I don't think we should accept LLM content into the project.

Thanks, I mentioned this thread there. But forgot to link it here.

There was also a thread on the git mailing list [1]. They and/or QEMU
had discussed the wording with lawyers at the Software Freedom
Conservancy. It might be worth taking a look at theirs.

> At a high level I'm concerned about writing text that permits assistive technologies
> that enable collabration e.g. screen readers, speech to text, etc.

Yes, that is important.

Collin

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/xmqqcyalm0mh.fsf@gitster.g/


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