Re: Proposal -- Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> Sun, 4 May 2025 18:58:19 +0200

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On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> This has so far also been the case for statistical data in Debian, such
> as simple aggregates such as the number of packages in Debian, which
> might be included in Debian without also including the entire Debian
> archive as source, data about word or character frequencies in natural
> language texts, and so on. I guess proponents of the original GR would
> also find this problematic?

There might be even simpler examples, such as PDFs or raster images
released under DFSG-free licenses (e.g., CC-BY-SA), which are freely
editable with Inkscape, Gimp, or the like, but were initially generated
by other means (like using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, which is
unfortunately quite likely for professionally authored content these
days). I'm not sure nowadays we consistently require, check, and
enforce, that the "preferred form of modification" for these works are
present in the archive.

Cheers
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