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Update AI Policy - #664

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@yaswant Yaswant Pradhan (yaswant) commented Jul 29, 2026

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Update AI policy and tidy some typographical errors.

Code Reviewer: Pierre Siddall (@Pierre-siddall)

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indemnity or legal protection for generated code. Its use is *strictly
prohibited* for any contributions to our simulation systems.
* **Contributor Liability**: Under all circumstances, individual *contributors bear
full legal and professional responsibility* for the integrity of the code they

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We have been challenged by a contributor on the wording "bear full [] legal responsibility". Is this backed up by guidance from the legal team or a wider corporate guidance on Gen AI ?

| 1 | Check file header | Explicitly names an approved | Reject immediately if |
| | and commit message | enterprise-tier tool | free/personal tier |
+------+--------------------+------------------------------+------------------------+
| 2 | Check licence | Code contains no proprietary | Request rewrite/proof |

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What exactly is the responsibility of the reviewer here ? How can they assert that a code hasn't been plagiarised ? It is not necessarily obvious.

Should we change the text to code contains no obvious proprietary or restrictively licensed snippet.

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All the text cleaning is fine but I have added two comments in the code changes

  • one about legal responsibility
  • one about reviewer responsibility

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