Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools (Christoph Cullmann)

Albert Vaca Cintora albertvaka at gmail.com
Sun May 18 08:11:35 BST 2025


On Sun, 18 May 2025, 08:59 Justin Zobel, <justin at 1707.io> wrote:

> If the contributor cannot tell you the license(s) of the code that was
> used to generate the code, then it's literally gambling that this code
> wasn't taken from another project by Gemini and used without their
> permission or used in a way that violates the license and opens up the KDE
> e.V. to litigation.
>

I'm no lawyer but I would expect that training AI will fall under fair use
of copyrighted code. If that's not the case already, it will probably be
soon. The benefits of AI to society are too large to autoimpose such a
roadblock.

Albert

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