On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 10:41, Benedict <bened...@apache.org> wrote: > At some point we have to discuss this, and here’s as good a place as any. > There’s a great news article published talking about how generative AI was > used to assist in developing the new vector search feature, which is itself > really cool. Unfortunately it *sounds* like it runs afoul of the ASF legal > policy on use for contributions to the project. This proposal is to include > a dependency, but I’m not sure if that avoids the issue, and I’m equally > uncertain how much this issue is isolated to the dependency (or affects it > at all?) > > Anyway, this is an annoying discussion we need to have at some point, so > raising it here now so we can figure it out. > > [1] > https://thenewstack.io/how-ai-helped-us-add-vector-search-to-cassandra-in-6-weeks/ > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenewstack.io/how-ai-helped-us-add-vector-search-to-cassandra-in-6-weeks/__;!!PbtH5S7Ebw!fi6r5DJcCCQ5zE54pLuUNDEXRSukUWsbj9dtHaXQX2Fcr-xkwsPUZz4QJu_3z5VOCKTSUIeupeClXoy0$> > [2] https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html >
My reading of the ASF's GenAI policy is that any generated work in the jvector library (and cep-30 ?) are not copyrightable, and that makes them ok for us to include. If there was a trace to copyrighted work, or the tooling imposed a copyright or restrictions, we would then have to take considerations.
