Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

On Fri Feb 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM GMT, Christian Kastner wrote:
> One, I don't think we have the standing to *on principle* decide that
> all outputs are derivative, in the legal sense of the term. That will be
> decided by courts and/or legislation.

We are taking a view, one way or another, ahead of any legislation, by 
our actions. I don't believe we need wait for legal precedent (although 
it would be wise to predict likely outcomes, where possible, and plan 
for the impact of them).

If someone cooked up a new software license, we would evaluate whether 
it was DFSG free and accept or reject corresponding software on that 
basis, without waiting for it to be tested in court.

> There has to be some meaningful relationship between the inputs for 
> which authorship is being claimed, and the outputs.

The meaningful relationship is the LLM: it's not magic, it's a (very 
complex) mapping of input to output.

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