On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 21:13, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote:
> > ***Proposal Text*** > > Choice 2: Software incorporating AI Models Released under DFSG Licenses > free Must provide for > Practical Modification to Comply with DFSG > > The project asks those charged with interpreting the DFSG to require > that software incorporating AI models have a preferred form of > modification for the models and that we provide our users the ability to > modify these models in order to be included in the main section of the > archive. Examples of such a preferred form of modification can include > the original training data for the model. Alternatively, a base model > (especially when the base model can be replaced and multiple options are > available) along with training data for any fine tuning that has been > performed is acceptable. In some cases a model along with necessary > tools to perform incremental fine tuning may be acceptable if doing > additional incremental training is actually the approach that the > upstream project uses to modify the model. As with other interpretations > of the DFSG, something cannot be the preferred form of modification if > the upstream of the software under consideration has a more preferred > form of modification that is not public. > Another, simpler, alternative would be to vote on the Debian project endorsing https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition It basically translates the four freedoms into AI freedoms and introduces "Data Information" as a substitute for (potentially unredistributable) original training data - a description of what data was used for training and how it was acquired and processed. With the key that a sufficiently skilled person should be able to reproduce the data and then the model using this information. -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigar...@debian.org #--------------------------------------------------------------# | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) | | : :' : | | `. `' Software Engineer, BMW | | `- | #--------------------------------------------------------------#
