Hi Damian, To confirm what Moritz already said, the decision was made by the HF Board, not by the Chair alone. FWIW as one of directors of the HF, I support the decision. You are very welcome to nominate yourself when the next round of board elections will be happening.
On the substance of matter, any meaningful legal advice from intellectual property lawyers on the subject is likely to cost five digits (unless the said lawyer will meat-proxy what ChatGPT says, of course). Given that hundreds of major companies all over the world use LLMs to write their cherished all-rights-reserved software (= their stakes to lose copyright are much more significant than for GHC team) and their lawyers are seemingly satisfied with it, there does not seem to be an immediate or visible danger. Ultimately at the moment all legal opinions on LLMs are a coin toss, until the matter is actually tested by courts. There is simply not enough legal evidence at the moment for lawyers to provide anything resembling a definitive answer. So to answer Julian's question above (in my private capacity and in the capacity of one of HF directors), my view is that a legal advice will be both expensive and a waste of time. Best regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
