The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.
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.
It seems to me like the Linux Foundation provides the legal advice to the Linux kernel. And the Linux Foundation seems to have essentially given a green light for AI use here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai
My personal assumption is that whatever Torvalds decides happens on top of those baseline restrictions, but I could be entirely wrong.
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.
It seems to me like the Linux Foundation provides the legal advice to the Linux kernel. And the Linux Foundation seems to have essentially given a green light for AI use here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai
My personal assumption is that whatever Torvalds decides happens on top of those baseline restrictions, but I could be entirely wrong.