> On 07/15/2026 6:20 PM CEST Julian Ospald via ghc-devs <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> [...]
> All that matters is that I affirm: **I own the code, intellectually and 
> legally. [...]

As a side note, has the legal portion of this been thought through? At least 
here in the US, it appears to be far from settled case law that you won't, for 
example, be infringing copyright if an LLM generates code very similar to 
existing code that's under a different license, even if the person using the 
LLM has no knowledge of the similarity.

It also appears to be the case (at least in the US) that an author can't say "I 
own the code, intellectually and legally" if they've generated code with an LLM 
and left it unmodified: Thaler v. Perlmutter (a lower-court case) held that all 
copyrightable works must "be authored by a human being." So, bits of GHC may 
now be public domain rather than under GHC's licence.

Tom
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