glibc AI policy

[Paul Eggert]

On 2026-04-07 11:01, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 4/2/26 12:05 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> 1) Code included in this package that comes from a single LLM prompt
>> must be limited in size: it must be at most 5 lines long.
> 
> You stated below that the intent of rule 1 was to ensure the
> content was legally insignificant.
> 
> If we rewrote rule 1 as follows:
> 
> ~~~
> 1) Code included in this package that comes from an LLM prompt
> must be considered legally insignificant to be accepted [1]
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html
> ~~~
> 
> Would the intent be more clear or less clear?

Less clear, because the reader needs to go off to another website and 
figure stuff out. It's better to say what we want directly.

It might not hurt for Gnulib's advice to also point to that URL. That 
being said, since the FSF is likely to announce its own thoughts on the 
matter, perhaps we should leave Gnulib alone for now, to avoid churn.