USB Printing (for vinyl cutter) support & AI Assisted Code Contributions Policy

[Kyle Cascade]

I have a branch of wine that adds support for talking to my USB vinyl
cutter, allowing me to run its Silhouette Studio software AND send it to
the USB device.

Winedb:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=16375
Branch:
https://gitlab.winehq.org/kyle1/wine/-/compare/master...mr2-usb-driver-stack...

Incredibly, it works! It took a lot of code to actually make it happen, but
so incredible that I can actually use this device without Windows now. I'm
super happy.

But, before I try to work towards submitting it, I should disclose that I
used Claude Code extensively to build it.

I couldn't find any docs on the wiki or FAQ about AI-generated patches.
Given the clean room policy, is there an official stance on this?
I haven't read any Windows source code, but I can't prove that the model
wasn't trained on it.

Kyle

I see that the Clean Room Policy

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines/history

has been updated to include a note about LLM code.

Thanks for confirming!