Il 07/10/24 18:38, Even Rouault via gdal-dev ha scritto:
Hi,
I propose we update RFC 8 with the following changes:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/10958
Can we enforce that? No (similarly we can't prevent someone from
stealing copyrighted material from source code of proprietary software
they have access to, or "re-license" or "forget" copyright attribution
of open source code without authorization), but at least we set the
policy.
This is admittedly a highly controversial topic. Debian for example
has had related discussions but didn't come with a position for now,
whereas Gentoo banned use of generative AI:
https://lwn.net/Articles/972331/
It seems more prudent to me to ban for now, and potentially relax in
the future, when/if the legal status of this becomes clearer. (not
even mentioning the ethical or environmental impact sides of such tools)
Even
Hi Even,
I have read the discussion on lwn and I must say that I am more in line
with the debian position.
I find it ironic that as an open source developer who probably
contributed a lot of training material to feed the AI model I myself am
banned to use it.
At the moment I am using copilot as a cut-and-paste on steroids and it
has improved my efficiency, to me it is no different than copying and
pasting from another file in the GDAL source code or going to SO to
search how to write a complex recursive lambda implementation in C++11,
cut the example and paste in GDAL. Note that in both cases the
copied/pasted or generated code will need careful review and adaptations.
--
Alessandro Pasotti
w3: www.itopen.it
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