Coding assistants for KDE (was: Re: Disallow or discourage use of "AI" tools)

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

> 

> 

> On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 21:32:20 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Ingo Klöcker
> wrote:
> 

> > Yes, there is the theoretical threat that an AI learned code that's under a
> > less liberal license like the GPL or even under one of the "new" not-OSI-
> > approved licenses used by certain companies to prevent Amazon from selling
> > services based on their code (or even proprietary code; for all we know, Co-
> > Pilot was trained with the entire source code written by Microsoft), but
> > that's only a problem if the AI cites this code literally so that we could
> > be sued for plagiarizing. How realistic is this threat?
> 

> 

> To turn this discussion into something positive: Maybe we should train our own
> coding assistant AI(s) for Kate/KDevelop with code relevant for C++ and QML
> which respects the licenses. We'd have an AI model for writing LGPL code that
> was trained with KF and Qt source code (and other KDE code that's LGPL-
> compatible) and we'd have a second AI model for writing GPL code that was
> trained additionally with all of our GPL code.
> 

> Kate would automatically use the correct model based on the SPDX license of
> the current file.

That would be a nice thing to have.

That would at least make it a lot easier to decide that the derived
code ends up with the right license.

Greetings
Christoph

> 

> Regards,
> Ingo
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