On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 8:07 AM Teylu, Andrew via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Long time listener, first time caller … > > For those of who don’t click through, the rough summary is: to decline any > patches longer than 15 lines that are written by AI. > > Is anyone else surprised by this? When the threads first started on this > topic earlier on, I had believed that GCC was “more optimistic” on the use of > generative AI, but this new policy seems rather “anti AI” (a change of only > 15 lines seems very limiting). > > To be clear, I am not trying to get the policy changed, I am just wondering > if any other developers are surprised at this?
I'm not surprised that we take a conservative stance on copyright issues related to LLM contribution. I'm somewhat surprised we're leaving open the grey area of "legally insignificant" contributions. The cited 15 lines is not a hard number and is not directly referred to in the policy. In the end the policy side-steps all important issues with LLM contributions by deflecting to legal issues ... Richard. > From: Gcc <[email protected]> on behalf of > David Edelsohn via Gcc <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 at 03:12 > To: GCC Development <[email protected]>; Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> > Subject: GCC AI Policy Announcement > > The GCC Steering Committee has accepted the recommended policy of the GCC > AI Policy Working Group. The policy is described in the following document > preview / pull request in Forge, which will be committed to the GCC website: > > https://forge.sourceware.org/redi/gcc-wwwdocs/commit/4d0793a6a14bf9bfe9e92ac1599840780355199d > > We expect the policy to continue to evolve and will revisit it periodically. > > We wish to thank Jonathan Wakely for his leadership of the working group > and the members of the working group: Carlos O'Donell, Sudakshina Das, Jason > Merrill, Joel Sherrill, Sam James, Robin Dapp, and Arthur Cohen. > > Happy Hacking! > David
