Ballot Option: Allow public AI for translations

Pirate Praveen <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:43:21 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I feel there should be an option in the middle from current two options 
which rejects or accepts. Also translations should be treated separately 
from code / documentation as copyleft is not relevant there.

----draft proposal ----

LLMs have made a huge leap in language translations, but at the same 
time depending on big tech companies to provide this service is not a 
good idea.

1. Public AI is AI as public infrastructure like highways, water, or 
electricity.

2. Public AI must use Free Software models.

3. At this point, we don't want to insist on training data being freely 
available, similar to how we don't insist on Free Hardware Designs. The 
challenges to practically being able to use the available data should be 
factored in. Similar to how costly it would be to produce hardware from 
Free Hardware Designs, even when training data is available, huge 
computing power is required to use it practically.

4. Translations generated by Public AI can be accepted.

5. Code / documentation generated by Public AI can also be accepted if 
it preserves share alike / copyleft conditions of original code used in 
training.

--- drat ends ----

I don't think staying away from the usefulness of LLM is good, at the 
same time, we should preserve copyleft and avoid dependency on big tech 
companies. So we should support initiatives like https://publicai.co and 
make use of such services.

I would be happy to take comments and could finalize the text based on 
feedback.
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