@bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana So the question is: is it safe, from a legal perspective, given the current state of uncertainty of copyright of such contributions, to encourage accepting such contributions into repositories?

Now clearly, many projects are: the Linux kernel most famously is, and their recent policy document says effectively, "You can contribute AI generated code, but the onus is on you whether or not you legally could have".

Which is not very helpful of a handwave, I would say, since few contributors are equipped to assess such a thing. I've left myself and three others addressed in this portion of the thread, and all of us *have* done licensing work, and my suspicion is, *especially* based on what's been written, that none of us could confidently project where things are going to go.

@bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana Continuing here, because it's the relevant subthread.

I am sympathetic to choosing to narrow a topic. However, the post, in implying that we should start accepting partially AIgen contributions, inherently pulls in the topic of whether or not that is legally safe.

Yes, I have read the previous Conservancy post about the existing cases. This partly contributes to my surprise and confusion about the post.

Acknowledging that the plan is to have continued conversations and meetings about this, I still feel it is important to lay down my current concerns, even before such a meeting. I am leaving the "quality of contributions" and many other details out of here, and instead focusing on whether of not it is *safe to accept* contributions on copyright grounds at the moment, and what the implications of thinking on that are.

(cotd)

Huh. A strange question has come to me that in a certain light looks like it’s at the heart of language, maybe colonialism, propaganda and accessibility.

Fediverse, my question is this: setting aside English-first cultures, does your country or culture of origin have spelling bees?

@mczachurski no please! Make it part of the JSON; we have extensions for it.

@evan @peterbrown @straphanger

Fair.

So the question becomes trying to support a project which is designed to fail, or to help it fail sooner so a more-realistic toe-dip (e.g. Cascadia) into HSR can be proposed?

@evan @peterbrown @straphanger ok so nothing lethal.

@Amgine @peterbrown @straphanger oh, sure. Imaginary Alto could do whatever you want.

@peterbrown @lritter @straphanger I literally just said what is not to like.

@evan I looked for Canadian politicians — not because I can think of any who seem particularly likely to indulge in sexual debauchery, but because I could think of a few who might hang out with wealthy New Yorkers, there or in Florida. Didn't find anything questionable.

@lritter @evan @straphanger it is considerably more comfortable than flying and exponentially faster than driving.
What’s not to like?