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

On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 22:59 +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
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> b) Removal of image recognition software (like opencv[2])

Not likely. I'm the uploader of src:opencv.
This is a pretty large library that contains lots of functionalities
that does not require a "model" to function. For opencv, it is at
most adding one more file for the +dfsg file exclusion, or spliting
the model to maybe a non-free package and set Recommends to pull
the package.

The thing is similar for src:nltk (a natural language processing toolkit).
It's models are not packaged, and I marked the bug requesting the model
package as wontfix. This is also a large library where lots of useful
functions do not need a model to run.

There are lots of software upstreams who do not release
model inside the source code tarball. Instead, downloading
is triggered when the user calls the API that relies on the
particular model, and calling the model is usually not the
sole functionality of the software.

As explained by the "Scope" part of the original proposal email,
traditional software written in C++/Python like OpenCV is not involved.
What involved is just the "model" file itself.