On 9/20/26 16:56, Olivier Dion wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2026, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> wrote:
If you, and the other the co-maintainers, hold the responsibility to
keep the code GPLv3+, then I would argue that you can't accept any LLM
contribution because there were no legal jurisprudences that show LLM is
not derivatives work. Therefore, it is not currently possible, in a
legal standpoint, to respect the GPL using any kind of LLM outputs.
If it would be that easy, the entire GCD process would have settled quickly.
There are many changes that are not eligible for copyright because they
are statements of facts. Many of our package definitions fall into that
category.
Most suggestions of what people might potentially like to use LLMs for
within Guix are changes that seem unlikely to be copyrightable.
Copyright was discussed at length, and while there is still (much) more
to discuss on the topic, such platitudes only make the discussion go in
circles.
