From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: paulmck@kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Annotating patches containing AI-assisted code
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:32:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F9AF2AA7-0E12-43E9-A34C-2D45CA591DEC@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0iBLndaGmF=_VHy8bi5F7Ey0Ov+pCtd2Wt9+_uAkW1e-A@mail.gmail.com>
On August 18, 2025 6:53:22 PM GMT+01:00, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM James Bottomley
><James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
[...]
>> But the bottom line is that pure AI generated code is effectively
>> uncopyrightable and therefore public domain which means anyone
>> definitely has the right to submit it to the kernel under the DCO.
>
>Well, if it isn't copyrightable, then specicially it cannot be
>submitted under the GPLv2 which is required for the kernel, isn't it?
No. Public domain code can be combined with any licence (including GPL) because it carries no incompatible obligations since it carries no obligations at all. You can release public domain code under any licence, but you can't enforce the licence except on additions or modifications because the recipient could have obtained the original from the original obligation free source.
Regards,
James
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-05 15:38 Jiri Kosina
2025-08-05 17:50 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-05 18:00 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-08-05 18:16 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-05 21:53 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-05 22:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-08-05 18:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 22:06 ` Alexandre Belloni
2025-08-05 18:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-08 8:31 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-08-11 21:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 21:57 ` Luck, Tony
2025-08-11 22:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-08-11 22:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 22:54 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-08-11 23:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-12 16:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 22:28 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-12 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-12 16:03 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-08-12 16:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 16:17 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-08-12 17:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-12 17:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 22:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-11 22:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-11 23:22 ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-11 23:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 0:02 ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-12 2:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-18 21:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-20 21:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 16:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-12 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-18 21:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-19 15:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-19 16:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-20 22:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-21 10:54 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-08-21 11:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-12 8:38 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-12 13:15 ` Bird, Tim
2025-08-12 14:31 ` Greg KH
2025-08-18 21:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-19 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 14:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 15:55 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-08-18 21:07 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-19 15:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-19 15:23 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-19 16:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-20 21:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-21 10:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 16:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-21 17:30 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 17:36 ` Luck, Tony
2025-08-21 18:01 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 19:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-21 19:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 21:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-21 21:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-21 21:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-21 17:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-21 18:32 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 19:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-21 19:52 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-21 21:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-22 7:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-08-21 20:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-21 21:18 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-21 20:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-18 17:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-08-18 18:32 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2025-08-19 15:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-18 19:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-08-18 19:19 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-18 19:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-08-18 19:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-18 22:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-08-06 8:17 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-08-06 10:13 ` Mark Brown
2025-08-12 14:36 ` Ben Dooks
2025-09-15 18:01 ` Kees Cook
2025-09-15 18:29 ` dan.j.williams
2025-09-16 15:36 ` James Bottomley
2025-09-16 9:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-09-16 15:31 ` James Bottomley
2025-09-16 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-09-16 15:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-09-16 15:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-09-16 16:06 ` Luck, Tony
2025-09-16 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-09-16 23:30 ` Kees Cook
2025-09-17 15:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-09-17 17:02 ` Laurent Pinchart
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