Two small points: Jim - if you plan to post more on the devlist here - we ask you (like) everyone else to subscribe to the devlist - otherwise we have to moderate your posts.
> If there are any doubts, don't hesitate to pull in ASF Legal for > clarification. I would not say "any" it's quite impractical to open a JIRA issue or send an email to legal for **any** doubt, but certainty when we have reasonable doubt we should. The "Generative Tooling Guidance by ASF" was written specifically by Roman - the VP legal (a friend of mine - we organize "AI Plumbers" devroom at FOSDEM in February for the second time) - to give enough guidance, so that we can make the call ourselves. I think having such an interactive discussion in slack might help us to figure out what might and might not be copyrightable (this is one of the reasons I made the proposal - so that we have forum where we can discuss it) - and if we see some reasonable doubts, we should bring it to the devlist and ask legal opinion in case of doubt (note that our legal team are also not Lawyers - but Roman definitely can help with his wisdom and experience to provide his view - he is very knowledgeable here, but we need to be careful not to overload our legal team with too many questions). J. On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excellent post. Just one little nit: > > > On Nov 11, 2025, at 6:21 AM, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think when we share our > > contributions openly we can discuss things like "is that copyrightable" > > Just a reminder that that question (ie: "is that copyrightable") is a _legal_ > question and not a technical one. Yes, sometimes it is obvious (eg: "i = i > +1") but sometimes not. > > If there are any doubts, don't hesitate to pull in ASF Legal for > clarification. > -- > Jim > "Will this wind be so mighty, as to lay low the mountains of the Earth?" > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
