zero323 commented on PR #42469: URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/42469#issuecomment-1677424310
> It's interesting. The typical CONTRIBUTING.md text that we have says, "When you contribute code, you affirm that the contribution is your original work", which seems at odds with the ASF guidance. I assume we are counting AI-assisted code as original work. @srowen I am not a lawyer, so please take whatever I say with a grain of salt. The current interpretation seems to be that the generated content is not considered to be work within the meaning of the copyright law. So "work" in this meaning is only what a human does with the output. This position seems to be echoed by the ASF policy and the U.S. Copyright guidance it links to. It is also consistent with the informal opinions I got from the Polish Patent Office. How we are supposed to judge if a given human contribution is sufficient for inclusion of the patch in the project without weakening ASF copyright claims is a mystery to me. Not to even mention the evaluation of the terms of service of any tool that contributors decide to use. I have a gut feeling that at this point, using generative AI for content creation within a public project is a serious liability with little to gain, but given the lack of response on the dev list, following the ASF recommendations is the least we should do. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
