On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> skribis:
> >
> >> My impression is that all GCD 008 versions are quite strict on the use
> >> of all generative AI, despite some exceptions in the latest proposed
> >> policy versions that Maxim criticized.  I seek ambiguity in legal
> >> significance more than there really is in the policy.
> >>
> >> Ambiguity stems from the difference of commitments and of policy to what
> >> has been accepted by me and Julien Lepiller for translations so far.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> A strict policy looks nice if we don’t want this meandering quality, but
> >> then Weblate is not sustainable without gating access.
> >
> > OK, thanks for explaining.
> >
> > Since translation is quite special (in that people submit individual
> > strings rather than big chunks),
>
> Yes, there is no legal concern.

The Legally Significant [0] page in the GNU Maintainer documentation
linked from GCD 008 expresses a legal consideration:

"Keep in mind, however, that a series of minor changes by the same
person can add up to a significant contribution. What counts is the
total contribution of the person; it is irrelevant which parts of it
were contributed when."

[0] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html

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