Re: [License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

2024-05-25 Thread Shuji Sado
In general, Japanese copyright law is considered to be one of the most compatible with machine learning in the world. Training AI with open source code is basically considered legal, and even for commercial software code, AI training is legal as long as it is not explicitly prohibited by contract.

Re: [License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

2024-05-25 Thread Josh Berkus
On 5/18/24 17:06, Miles Georgi wrote: Hi! If I open-source a project with a free license, if code from that project winds up being used as training data or prompt data to a code-generating AI to generate similar code, would that generated code be considered a derived work under any circumstance

Re: [License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

2024-05-25 Thread Bruce Perens via License-discuss
1. Not in Japan, because they've decided to make their law that way. 2. It should be the case in most countries, but it is not so far because it's not literal copying and cases which are attempting to make the point that it is copying are still in litigation. On Sat, May 25, 2024, 06:55 Miles Geor

Re: [License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey
On May 18, 2024, at 19:21, Ben Ramsey wrote: Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentim

[License-discuss] Updating the PHP License

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey via License-discuss
Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: chan

[License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

2024-05-25 Thread Miles Georgi
Hi! If I open-source a project with a free license, if code from that project winds up being used as training data or prompt data to a code-generating AI to generate similar code, would that generated code be considered a derived work under any circumstances? And does that potentially depend on wha

[License-discuss] Updating the PHP license

2024-05-25 Thread Ben Ramsey via License-discuss
Hi, all! Over the years, there have been a few discussions on this list regarding the PHP license. Other parts of the open source community (e.g., Debian) have had lengthy discussions and disagreements regarding the license, as well. The TL;DR sentiment of all these discussions amounts to: chan