No disclosure for LLM-generated patch?
No disclosure for LLM-generated patch?
Posted Jul 1, 2025 9:51 UTC (Tue) by cyphar (subscriber, #110703)In reply to: No disclosure for LLM-generated patch? by mb
Parent article: Supporting kernel development with large language models
You could just as easily argue that LLMs produce something equivalent to a generative collage of all of their training data, which (given the current case law on programs and copyright) would mean that the copyright status of the training data would be transferred to the collage. You would thus need to make an argument for a fair use exemption for the output, which your example would not pass muster.
However, this is not the only issue at play here -- to submit code to Linux you need to sign the DCO, which the commit author did with their Signed-off-by line. However, none of the sections of the DCO can be applied to LLM-produced code, and so the Signed-off-by is invalid regardless of the legal questions about copyright and LLM code.