On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 2:40 AM Nguyễn Gia Phong <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > So yes, Oracle doesn't like contributions already in the public domain > (so it can't sue other parties for infringements), but it's also > not thrilled about infringing copyrights either (so it can be sued > by other parties). > > I think the latter might apply to us.
This has always been a risk accepting contributions. A developer could copy and/or modify example code off Stack Overflow and fail to properly attribute per CC BY-SA. The risk to our project is mitigated in that most Guix contributions are not copyrightable "factual" updates for versions, checksums, and applying patches.
