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I'm involved with a few projects that leverage the DCO [1]. Afaik, it's not been legally tested yet, but given all the open questions around copyright with LLMs
by halosghost 3y ago
I'm involved with a few projects that leverage the DCO [1]. Afaik, it's not been legally tested yet, but given all the open questions around copyright with LLMs, I assume a DCO sign-off on LLM-generated code would be a misrepresentation, and any project having received such commits would either need to rewrite those portions from-scratch (as done in other cases of infringing code) or simply remove them wholesale.
Put another way, till IP-implications have been figured out, I assume all LLM-generated code is radioactive for FLOSS projects.
[edit to clarify]: so documenting that a commit you're pushing includes code generated with an LLM will make maintainers' lives dramatically simpler. Please, and thank you!
All the best,
-HG
[1] https://developercertificate.org/ https://developercertificate.org/