On Fri Feb 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM GMT, Christian Kastner wrote:
One, I don't think we have the standing to *on principle* decide that
all outputs are derivative, in the legal sense of the term. That will be
decided by courts and/or legislation.
We are taking a view, one way or another, ahead of any legislation, by
our actions. I don't believe we need wait for legal precedent (although
it would be wise to predict likely outcomes, where possible, and plan
for the impact of them).
If someone cooked up a new software license, we would evaluate whether
it was DFSG free and accept or reject corresponding software on that
basis, without waiting for it to be tested in court.
There has to be some meaningful relationship between the inputs for
which authorship is being claimed, and the outputs.
The meaningful relationship is the LLM: it's not magic, it's a (very
complex) mapping of input to output.
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