Re: Capy: Request for endorsements

Le 2026-02-20 15:09, Peter Dimov via Boost a écrit :

> It can't be correct, because if it were, you wouldn't be able to 
> produce a non-
> infringing work either, if you have ever been exposed to a copyrighted 
> one;
> the exposure has altered your mental state, so your output is tainted 
> by
> definition.

IIRC, some employers are forbidding their engineers to look at their 
competitors' patents for this exact reason : they don't want to be 
accused of some sort of plagiarism / patent infrigement if their 
engineers come to a solution that is too close from the patented one. 
I'm not sure how the same would not apply to an LLM.

To add to the confusion in regards of AI-generated code, it seems that 
US and EU are somewhat diverging here, EU being, from what i understand, 
more protective of the original authors than what's happening in US. And 
there's the rest of the world, of course…

A different approach exists, however. IIRC some companies are selling 
tools to detect potential licence infrigements in code base (typically, 
reuse of GPL-ed code, but also random snippets without licence, etc.). I 
never used them, don't know how reliable they are, but that could be 
worth a try if someone has access to such tools.

Regards,

Julien
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