>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Johnston <s...@samj.net> writes:
Sam> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 at 16:04, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org>
wrote:
>> I don't think we should focus our conversation on LLMs much, if
>> at all.
Sam> Just as the software vendor doesn't get to tell users what
Sam> constitutes an improvement for the purposes of the free
Sam> software definition, we don't get to tell practitioners what
Sam> the subjective "preferred form" means. That's why I prefer the
Sam> objective "actual form" Sam referred to in suggesting "We look
Sam> at what the software authors *actually do* to modify models
Sam> they incorporate to determine the preferred form of
Sam> modification". I guarantee some will reach for the data, so it
Sam> must be included for that freedom to be fully protected.
Actually, no, that's not how Debian works.
We look to what the people working on the upstream project and the
package do when modifying the package, and generally accept that as the
preferred form of modification for the package.
