On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 15:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 15:18 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > In my opinion the situation is simple, as already several courts > > hinted, the output of an AI cannot be copyrighted, and that makes sense > > given Copyright hinges on protecting human creativity and AIs clearly > > are not human. So Fedora could make a decision that the default license > > for AI generated code is just "Public Domain". > > The most 'dangerous' case is the potential one where the AI system's > output is a close copy of some pre-existing human-authored chunk of > code, to the extent that the human author's copyright would apply to > it. In that situation we may be violating their copyright by including > it, depending on the license.
Can we talk about what the risk of that is? Are we talking 30%, 3%, 0.3% 0.003% .. ? In the end I would make it a risk calculation, and add a note that if that should ever happen, and an author comes around and demand changes, Fedora will expeditiously remove the code or add attribution as the author prefers. I assume the chance of that happening to be low of course. Simo. > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org > https://www.happyassassin.net > > -- Simo Sorce Distinguished Engineer RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
