> > In revision 1.340 of tmux on the OpenBSD repository the following > > commit statement was made: > > > > "From Chris Lloyd with the assistance of Claude Code, GitHub > > issue 4744." > > > > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/log/src/usr.bin/tmux/format.c > > > > In the issue report on GitHub Nicholas Marriott comments: > > > > Because you wrote this with AI, it isn't clear that you have the > > copyright, so we need a link to a statement from the Claude > > website showing that they release any copyright over this code to > > you (and therefore you own it and are able to license it with the > > ISC license used by tmux). > > > > And Chris Lloyd then responds: > > > > Anthropic waives all rights of the outputs of Claude. > > That's like 15 lines and not something that would normally result > in a copyright addition, as long as nobody is claiming rights on it
That makes sense. > > But in the email about ext4fs in the reply from Theo, it is clearly > > stated: > > > > It is blatantly obvious to everyone that these AI were provided > > with large volumes of code, and that licenses on the files are > > ignored, because from the companies's perspective this is > > "teaching". > > > > The output of these AI is a sophisticated form of pattern > > regurgitation. Regurtigating the old. Generally the > > regurgitation is differnet. But that's not the real problem. > > > > Noone can put a Copyright onto that output, because under the > > current laws that requires a human to have created the output. > > > > Lacking Copyright (or similarily a Public Domain declaration by a > > human), we don't receive sufficient rights grants which would > > permit us to include it into the aggregate body of source code, > > without that aggregate body becoming less free than it is now. > > > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2 > > > > Having Anthropic just waive all rights is one thing, but they > > obviously cannot waive any rights which they do not posses. As Theo > > wrote, "licenses on the files are ignored", how then can this be > > accepted by the OpenBSD project? > > That's 8000-odd lines and would want a copyright addition Thank you very much for the clarification! Kind regards, Marting
