Re: reading LLM code may rule out white room re-implementation; was: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility

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  > >> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
  > >>> If any of us read it, we may then not be able to implement the ideas.
  > >> 
  > >> We can implement ideas. (Note that I explicitly stated that ideas are
  > >> mine anyway).
  > > 
  > > Reading the code would mean that we disqualify for a white-room
  > > implementation.

  > Dr. Arne, you have brought legal concerns and that that all stands.

  > Yet one thing is seriously important and forgotten, that such legal 
  > concerns are valid only if underlying datasets used to train LLM are 
  > non-free.

Not necessarily.  Other complications are possible -- such as that
some free licenses are incompatible with others.  Instead of trying to
leap to plausible answers, let's let trained people find the right answer.

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