On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 10:36:56PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 10:25:54 +0100
> Steve George <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think I follow _how_ you think the situation will have
> > changed Denis?
> > 
> > From what I can see:
> > 
> > - Before LLMs
> >     - some code in the archive has copyright, some does not
> > - After LLMs
> >     - some code in the archive has copyright, some does not
> 
> I agree with that but it was not my point at all.
> 
> - Without LLMs: 
>   Commits were made by people or tools and most of it was legal
>   and re-distributable because:
> 
>   (1) Generally speaking people did the work, even if we had no
>       Developers Certificate of Onwership. They wouldn't (massively)
>       copy code from sources under incompatible licenses / leaked code,
>       etc.
> 
>       Note that Linux didn't even bother to review patches without
>       signed-off-by and not having that is a complete no-go.
> 
>   (2) What was copyrightable *didn't matter* unless we were trying to
>       enforce the GPL in a lawsuit.
> 
> And here I'm not concerned about the GPL or copyleft. It is important
> indeed but there are priorities.
> 
> And here my #1 priority is to keep Guix legal to be able to continue
> using it as a dependency for GNU Boot, to enable the Chipflasher project
> to still use it, etc. My #2 priority is to keep it free but that's not
> what is discussed here.

Thanks Denis, I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying your goals. 

Steve / Futurile

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