On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM Simo Sorce <s...@redhat.com> 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% .. ? > > 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.
In risk management, one must evaluate not only the probability, but the impact of an occurrence, mitigations that can be applied to either reduce the probability of the incident occurring or the resulting impact, and finally acceptance of any residual risk. That final part will likely need to be done by the project (the council) with input from corporate legal. -- _______________________________________________ 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
