On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > * Charles-Antoine Couret: > > Here, due to the method and the fact it can produce a percentage of > > code reproduction by design, any developer using this tool can > > produce, without noticing or knowing it, a copyright violation. > > You could be in exactly the same situation five years ago if you wrote > in response to a bug report, “would you please send a patch?” And yet > we didn't discourage contributions or asking for contributions when > applicable.
Five years ago you could get a patch by a developer, who has either * willingly violated somebody else's copyright and didn't state the license (sabotage: unsolvable) * unwillingly managed to independently produce an infringing patch even without ever coming into contact into what they infringed (low probability, unless it's a copyright on something patently stupid, and then it's sometimes defendable by proving they couldn't possibly come into contact with what they've infringed on) Today you could also get, for cheap, * a patch written by an plagiarism machine using a model that *is* a derivative work of almost everything scrapeable under the sun, everything pirateable under the sun, and then the private GitHub repos as well. They admit they're pulling from everywhere, ignore licensing and don't even deny reproducing copyrighted works, sometimes verbatim. When the US Copyright Office struggles to see how it's not violating copyright [1], accepting such contributions is a footcannon-sized disservice to whoever would be cleaning that mess up later. [1] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf -- _______________________________________________ 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
