> Am 29.07.2026 um 17:30 schrieb Arthur Cohen <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> What are the important LLM issues that you think the policy fails to address?
> As the policy itself states, the it is expected to evolve and feedback is
> welcome. The goal is to continuously improve it.
The policy grounds its rejection of legally significant LLM contributions on
legal issues (by means of naming). It does not cover the IMO much more severe
issues of overwhelming reviewers and keeping GCC maintainable. It also makes
LLM assisted contributions by maintainers who might want to use LLMs to get to
prototype stages fall into grey areas or even rejected. I realize the policy
is not a discussion review document but what was the point of having the policy
group when the outcome is just the obvious ‚legally unclear situation‘
statement?
Richard
> Thanks,
>
> Arthur
>
>> On 7/29/26 9:06 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>>> 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
>
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