On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 07:24:22PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > 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% .. ?
LLMs are quite good at finishing off Wikipedia articles for you (if you copy and paste the start of some random article and ask them to complete it). Now of course Wikipedia is special because that content is high quality and probably repeated many times in the training corpus. I don't have a percentage for what the risk of this is for random strings of code. Rich. > 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 -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- _______________________________________________ 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
