Hi Ludo, On Sat, 07 Mar 2026 at 11:05, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. What is the license of X, which has been vibe-coded? Can it be > packaged in Guix? Example: python-chardet 7.0. Are we able to answer this question? It seems a typical “IANAL but…“ As many of us, I’m also surprised – to put it mildly – by the inelegance – to put it mildly again – of current python-chardet maintainer who fully changes the licence. Somehow, I do not feel qualified to have a strong position aside something like: “I Am Not A Lawyer so I don’t know if it’s wrong but I personally think it’s bad”. > 2. What are our inclusion criteria for non-trivial LLM-produced > contributions? (Again: not policing whether contributors are using > LLMs, but looking that the cases where contributors claimed to use > them or make it evident, for instance with the presence of > ‘CLAUDE.md’ file.) If the criteria would be stringent, would it imply exclude GNU Hurd for example? > * Linux > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/generated-content.rst > https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/ > * Asahi Linux > https://asahilinux.org/docs/project/policies/slop/ > * FreeBSD > > https://www.heise.de/en/news/FreeBSD-policy-AI-generated-source-code-No-thanks-10634141.html > * Gentoo > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy > * LLVM > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/docs/AIToolPolicy.md > * GNU binutils > https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/LLM_Generated_Content > * GNU gnulib > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-02/msg00064.html Thanks for these homework! Although my reading list was already long enough. ;-) In all cases, I agree that we need to write a stance, in one way or the other. Because, although the “uncertainty” of the copyright status of LLM output isn’t by itself different from other “uncertainty” of the copyright status, the novelty is about the scale of such “uncertainty”. Before it was about some specific cases, now it becomes more than we can deal with. Cheers, simon
