Hello Niranjan, I think you answered your own questions in the discussion.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 00:20 निरंजन <[email protected]> wrote: > they were > mainly centered around how LLMs are inherently developed > with unethical methods. We do not condone the use of the current generation of LLMs because they do not meet the definition of free software - you can't study the weights, the training, the alignment, nor make meaningful changes. , I am very much willing to distribute them to the > public, but I want to have an ethically and philosophically > sound position while doing that. > Most LLMs were (maybe illegally) trained on copyrighted code, and have a chance of outputting snippets of copyrighted code. I read the AI policy of GCC [2]. If I understand correctly, > the copyright status of LLM-generated code is itself dubious > in most countries. Since contributions to a GPL-licensed > project essentially need copyrights, non-copyrightable or > legally dubious code cannot be accepted/merged. That is correct. I'm not aware of a legal precedent for how much input from you is needed to an LLM for the courts to then treat the LLM like a tool, e.g. a macro in Emacs. Copyright requires that there be a rights holder, and a tool, be it Vim or an LLM, can't be a rights holder. suppose I want to release a free software on Savannah, > can I use CC0 license to disclaim/waive the copyright (if > applicable) and affirm that no action would be taken if the > copyright is deemed inapplicable. That helps my free > software activism, This is the problem - you don't know whether the output of the LLM is a copy of someone else's copyrighted code. If you read textbooks, learn to code, and happen to independently write a few lines of code that exactly match what someone else wrote, then the code you wrote still has your copyright (even if you made it CC0). But if a tool you use (Emacs macro) scraped free software repos that were AGPL and pasted snippets, then you cannot release that as CC0. by not > claiming any rights on the things I didn’t work on. CC0 is a claim. You claim that you are the copyright holder of the work, and that as the copyright holder you disclaim copyright. I am > posting this here as I want to know how Savannah would treat > vibe-code submissions. I'm a Savannah user, like you, and can't make the call on whether your proposal is acceptable, but I hope the above helped. Jan
