Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Annotating patches containing AI-assisted code

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:32:59 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:

> Btw, even in the case of a bigger pattern you saw there and you
> may be repeating, you won't be the only one doing it: an entire
> generation that used K&C textbook are also repeating them. Plus
> the ones that used newer books whose authors got inspired from
> it.

Since the authors actively encouraged people to use their examples, there's
no incentive to go after anyone.

> 
> In practice, even with the original book's copyright, I doubt
> anyone could actually enforce copyrights if one picks one of the
> book's code and use as-is (and more likely one would adjust
> coding style, parameter pass logic, etc).

I'm not so sure. But since most people who write coding books want people
to use their work, there's been no precedence on someone going after
someone for using code from a book (that I know of).

But there's a lot of assumptions in this thread, and I fear that those that
take a too lenient approach to AI may get burned by it.

-- Steve