Documentation: Add section about AI assistants.

Add a section to the submitting-patches documentation describing the
use of an "Assisted-by" tag for patches created with AI assistance.

Co-authored-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
index 8a8bc11b0a98f05d6715447884adb6775b558249..bc54e82970a5eb5358150a22d8e72241d5263392 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ Open vSwitch please sign off your work.  The sign off certifies the following:
 
 See also http://developercertificate.org/.
 
+AI-assisted Contributions
+-------------------------
+
+OVS is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, and the Linux Foundation's
+policy for AI-generated patches can be found here:
+https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai .
+
+OVS allows the use of AI assistants in producing patches.  Contributions
+which have used an AI assistant should disclose the use of the assistant by
+using the "Assisted-by" tag.  While AI-assisted patches are allowed, the author
+of the patch is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the AI-generated code
+has not violated any terms of the Developer's Certificate of Origin.
+
 Feature Deprecation Guidelines
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