Re: Proposal Alternative: A Model Can Be a Preferred form of Modification

On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 21:13, Sam Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> ***Proposal Text***
>
> Choice 2: Software incorporating AI Models Released under DFSG Licenses
> free Must provide for
> Practical Modification to Comply with DFSG
>
> The project asks those charged with interpreting the DFSG to require
> that software incorporating AI models have a preferred form of
> modification for the models and that we provide our users the ability to
> modify these models in order to be included in the main section of the
> archive. Examples  of such a preferred form of modification can include
> the original training data for the model. Alternatively, a base model
> (especially when the base model can be replaced and multiple options are
> available) along with training data for any fine tuning that has been
> performed is acceptable. In some cases a model along with necessary
> tools to perform incremental fine tuning may be acceptable if doing
> additional incremental training is actually the approach that the
> upstream project uses to modify the model. As with other interpretations
> of the DFSG, something cannot be the preferred form of modification if
> the upstream of the software under consideration has a more preferred
> form of modification that is not public.
>

Another, simpler, alternative would be to vote on the Debian project
endorsing https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

It basically translates the four freedoms into AI freedoms and introduces
"Data Information" as a substitute for (potentially unredistributable)
original training data - a description of what data was used for training
and how it was acquired and processed. With the key that a sufficiently
skilled person should be able to reproduce the data and then the model
using this information.

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    Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:[email protected]
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