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In recent times, there have been a growing number of contributions that are fully or
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- partially produced by generative AI (e.g. LLMs and friends) which exhibit
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+ partially produced by generative AI (e.g. large language models and friends) which exhibit
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characteristics that result in undue extra work for other contributors and maintainers.
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While we've seen PRs and issues with these characteristics produced entirely by
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humans, generative AI tools have significantly lowered the level of effort required to produce
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"plausibly-worthwhile" contributions that are otherwise entirely unmergable or
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incorrectly report bugs, and so have become a major source of burdensome PRs and
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issues.
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- Whether AI generated code are copyrightable works is also a hot-button legal topic that is
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+ Whether AI generated code are subject to copyright protection is also a hot-button legal topic that is
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still being openly debated and litigated. How this impacts the legal aspects of maintaining
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a FOSS project is currently an unresolved question.
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We recognize that English may not be the primarily language for all contributors and that
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machine translation is an indispensable tool for proper collaboration, and thus not subject to
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- the above policy. The community recommends that you instruct the LLM to produce a concise output or use non-LLM machine translation
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- options, as they tend to be less verbose while still getting the point across.
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+ the above policy. The community recommends that you instruct the LLM to produce a concise output
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+ or use non-LLM machine translation options, as they tend to be less verbose while still getting
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+ the point across.
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- ## Copyrightable AI Generated Contributions
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+ ## AI Generated Contributions and Copyright
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At the current time of writing (August 11th, 2025), the US Copyright Office has
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[ stated publicly] [ us-copyright-office-response ] that "human authorship is a
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pre-requisite to copyright protection". A [ more recent report] [ us-copyright-office-report ]
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from the same institution shows a much more contested legal space, both within the US and
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- internationally. In the case that AI generated works are copyrightable , those works
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+ internationally. In the case that AI generated works are protected under copyright , those works
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would be considered derivatives of the input dataset, and thus use AI-generated code and assets
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may constitute copyright infringement or may be subject to licensing terms incompatible
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with the FOSS licenses used by the Bevy Organization.
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Erring on the side of caution in light of a openly debated legal topic,
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- all[ ^ 1 ] forms of AI-generated contributions cannot be merged into repos maintained
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+ all[ ^ 1 ] forms of AI-generated contributions cannot be merged into repositories maintained
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by the Bevy Organization. This includes both code and non-code game assets (e.g. textures,
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audio, etc).
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Any triage team member suspecting a pull request to be made primarily through the use of
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- LLMs or other generative tools should mark the PR as ` S-Nominated-to-Close ` , upon which a
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- maintainer can then review the PR for closure. To help identify these cases,
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+ large language models or other generative tools should mark the PR as ` S-Nominated-to-Close ` ,
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+ upon which a maintainer can then review the PR for closure. To help identify these cases,
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pull requests subject to this policy have characteristics such as (but not limited to):
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* Needlessly or overly verbose descriptions or responses.
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