The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.
The kernel absolutely does not do that. What theyre referring to is linus saying he was fine with people using claude for analysis purposes or to double check your pr, not submitting whole ass ai prs
Is the Linux kernel a project of the Linux Foundation though? I understood that Linus Torvalds still maintains the kernel under his original authority, and the Foundation’s projects are all the ancillary specifications that the kernel should follow and related distros that make use of the kernel.
The kernel absolutely does not do that. What theyre referring to is linus saying he was fine with people using claude for analysis purposes or to double check your pr, not submitting whole ass ai prs
It seems like they do though, because
it’s explicitly allowed
and beyond that,
some numbers suggest it’s highly likely that it’s happening with no public concern or pushback from the kernel leadership.
I’ve also brought up these concerns on the mailing list, with apparently no response from the maintainers, even though Linus was CC’ed here by another kernel dev. Specifically, my suggestion to not allow AI code submissions resulted in no response.
I’m not saying I would be owed a response. But the implications of that seem pretty clear.
Is the Linux kernel a project of the Linux Foundation though? I understood that Linus Torvalds still maintains the kernel under his original authority, and the Foundation’s projects are all the ancillary specifications that the kernel should follow and related distros that make use of the kernel.