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Please include this information when you send the patch.
by LtWorf 3y ago
Please include this information when you send the patch.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoWhy? Would you reject my code because I talked to an AI chat bot in order to learn how to write it? That makes no sense.
- LtWorf 3y agoDo include the information and let the maintainers decide. There might be copyright concerns. Same as you should indicate if a patch you're sending isn't actually from you but you found it somewhere online.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoI have no problem with that. If I do manage to turn this into a patch, the resulting code is gonna be GPL anyway. GPL code -> AI -> me -> GPL code. There is no problem with that picture, even if you think the training of AIs is copyright infringement, which I don't.
- LtWorf 3y agoWhat YOU think is not too relevant though. Copilot's license places all the blame for copyright issues on the users… which means microsoft isn't too confident when they assure everyone that it's fair use.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoYour opinions aren't relevant either. Only the judge's opinion really matters. So far nobody really knows what sort of legal precedents will be established. And I'm pretty cynical but my world view is not yet so hopeless that I would even imagine that the FSF would actually drag me to court to answer to a judge for the crime of asking ChatGPT to explain GCC code to me so that I could try to contribute features to one of the most important and strategic projects in all of free software, despite both actions being rights afforded to me by the GPL itself.
- LtWorf 3y agoI didn't give an opinion. I asked you to present all the relevant information to the people making a decision. And I expressed a fact about a license. The problem is not FSF dragging you to court. The issue is that FSF wants to not be dragged to court by some patent troll.