Hi Ludo' et al.,
Thanks for taking on this difficult GenAI topic!
On 5/15/26 17:19, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
1. The project **will not use nor encourage use of genAI** for its
code, packages, code review, artwork, translations, or any other
artifacts.
2. We kindly ask contributors to respect this choice and not use LLMs
for their contributions to Guix. Nevertheless, code claimed to be
produced in whole or in part by genAI **may be incorporated in the
limit of at most 15 lines of code** to ensure the contributor has a
valid copyright claim on the code.
I don't understand these first two points to the point that I wouldn't
know what we would actually pledge. (So I also don't know how to provide
constructive feedback.)
On the one hand "the project will not use genAI", while on the other
hand, "code claimed(?) to be produced by genAI may be incorporated".
As in, we don't use genAI, but if we do so anyway, we might still use
its output?
Or is it, if someone else, unaffiliated with the project, produces code
that we find interesting, we can still incorporate it?
Maybe we can rewrite the second one to be more clear.
Hugo
I also don't understand the condition in point 2; I consider most of my
Guix contributions to be facts, and thus ineligible for a copyright
claim to begin with.
Most of my contributions (so far) do not involve originality or
creativity, but mainly labor. Good and important work, that I actually
enjoy, but also work I'd happily outsource to a machine.
Or to the people that believe the result is intrinsically better if the
work was done by hand; then I can focus on creative and interesting
parts, because I enjoy that even more.
