Jim Porter <[email protected]> writes: > The US Supreme Court has recently affirmed that the outputs of > generative AI aren't copyrightable; the "author" is held to be the > computer, but copyright is only applicable to creative works authored by > humans. The result is that the gen-AI outputs are public domain.
Note that public domain code is not disallowed in GNU projects. But LLMs indeed pose a new challenge to the existing practice - the amount of public domain code in GNU projects is usually very small. > Since the GPL uses copyright law as a way of guaranteeing the four > freedoms, the inclusion of legally-significant amounts of public domain > work would undermine this. Any public domain code could be relicensed > under a more-permissive license like BSD, or even extracted and used in > proprietary software. No, public domain code cannot be re-licensed. It is already public domain. You cannot put restrictions. The other question is whether it can spoil GPL license of the *other parts of the code*. But that question is to be answered by lawyers (GNU is on it). -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
