On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM André Batista <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Denis, > > sex 10 jul 2026 às 17:03:04 (1783713784), [email protected] enviou: > > On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:51:59 +0200 > > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > One case is that of copyright infringement where the LLM regurgitated > > > code that is proprietary or published under an incompatible license. > > > From what I’ve seen (references are in the GCD and in its previous > > > versions), this scenario is not science-fiction. > > > > > > More generally, the legal status of copyright output is still being > > > debated in every jurisdiction, and the fact that many would like to > > > treat it as public domain does not change that. > > > > Thanks a lot for caring about that !!!! > > > > The problem I see here is on practical grounds: how can we define a > > safe area where we could accept contributions made with LLMs when we > > are not law specialists. > > > > Through a GCD such as this one. > > > If we manage to do it, it would be good enough for me. I may or may not > > agree with the rest but at least it would not create domino effects on > > projects/people/organizations that depend on Guix. > > > > With my GNU Boot co-maintainer hat, I've asked Zoë Kooyman for advice on > > the topic, more precisely on the part about the Threshold of > > originality. I've also asked gnu-prog-discuss as well. > > > > I also shared some of my concerns about not taking the time to > > wait for GNU, not waiting to get inputs from lawyers, floating legal > > theories without knowing much about it (that's my case at least), etc. > > > > You've been repeating that for a while now, always othering GNU and > explicitly asking for a command from elsewhere to overrule our > collective capacity to form consensus on this matter. This attitude > is disheartening and an attack to the consensus decision making that > we've adopted for ourselves. This kind of attitude cannot be > tolerated as it attacks the legitimacy of the GCD process itself, it > attacks our community's autonomy, it attacks our citizenship and our > capacity for ethical behavior.
"Legal issues" is the first broad category listed in the GCD. Is your argument that this concern should be removed from the document? Otherwise, why are you attacking Denis for his work informing the community on this topic?
