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The post in question: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai https://openjdk.org/legal/ai It is 'OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI' and their lawyers are writing t
by flakiness 2mo ago
The post in question: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai https://openjdk.org/legal/ai
It is 'OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI' and their lawyers are writing the final version, according to this page.
It sounds like a sensible action, given past scars around Java and copyright, plus this is from a big old corp.
That said I personally don't expect that final proposal will end up any better.
- saghm 2mo ago> given past scars around Java and copyright How many of these were self-inflicted?
- ioasuncvinvaer 2mo agoDoes it matter?
- saghm 2mo agoI guess that depends on whether you think the motivations matter. When it comes to a policy on a hot-button issue that seems like it could easily be enforced selectively, I don't think it's a stretch to be concerned about whether the one who crafts and enforces the policy for a project that's supposed to be open having a track record of being the cause of the issues supposedly that make the policy "sensible".
- rwmj 2mo agoIntentional rather than self-inflicted.
- saghm 2mo agoNot sure how common this understanding of the terms is, but to me, those terms don't seem conflicting.
- rwmj 2mo agoOne is that Sun/Oracle made an honest mistake with the license (self-inflicted). The other is that they regretted that Java was ever open source and so made the license and other processes around Java as annoying as possible while still being technically open source.
- inigyou 2mo agoBut they are different terms.
- saghm 2mo agoIf you're not already aware that two different descriptors can both accurately describe something even if they're not synonyms, I'm not sure how to help you. What I originally said was accurate, and no amount of other accurate terminology will change that.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhy would I be unaware of that?