On 3/5/2026 8:09 AM, Laurence von Bottorff wrote:
I just spent a few hours of my precious mortal life going round and round with Gemini trying to get ob-sml to work properly. As Gemini pointed out, the ob-sml.el was essentially abandonware, last updated well over ten years ago, and very antiquated. We (i.e., Gemini; my Lisp skills are at /The Little Lisper /level) made improvements that have sml in babel code blocks working and looking much better on the latest sml 110.99.9. Could I submit this? If so, how do I do that? Never done before...
(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, and also not an Org-mode maintainer, though I do maintain part of GNU Emacs.)
The US Supreme Court has recently affirmed that the outputs of generative AI aren't copyrightable; the "author" is held to be the computer, but copyright is only applicable to creative works authored by humans. The result is that the gen-AI outputs are public domain.
Since the GPL uses copyright law as a way of guaranteeing the four freedoms, the inclusion of legally-significant amounts of public domain work would undermine this. Any public domain code could be relicensed under a more-permissive license like BSD, or even extracted and used in proprietary software.
While it's a separate project, GNU Binutils has a good summary of the sorts of LLM assistance they're ok with (or not), along with their reasoning: <https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/LLM_Generated_Content>. (They say the copyright status is unclear, but the page predates the Supreme Court decision.)
