Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

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On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 at 04:44, Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 8/5/26 5:11 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
>
> > It is important to understand that TOS work very differently from
> > copyright and copyleft licensing - TOS is *only* binding on the user
> > directly using the service.
>
> If the ToS state that the user must be the sole copyright holder, and
> grant a licence to the service to use the data for training, then this
> service cannot be used for anything where the user is not the sole
> copyright holder and therefore unable to grant the requested licence.


I agree. This alone would make xAI Grok be inclompatible with free software
development, in addition to ethical concerns around it. Other AI services
(as far as I know) either do not have such conditions in their TOS or have
ways to opt-out from this.

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Best regards,
    Aigars Mahinovs

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 at 04:44, Simon Richter &l=
t;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div>=
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On 8/5/26 5:11 AM, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; It is important to understand that TOS work very differently from <br>
&gt; copyright and copyleft licensing - TOS is *only* binding on the user <=
br>
&gt; directly using the service.<br>
<br>
If the ToS state that the user must be the sole copyright holder, and <br>
grant a licence to the service to use the data for training, then this <br>
service cannot be used for anything where the user is not the sole <br>
copyright holder and therefore unable to grant the requested licence.</bloc=
kquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. This alone would make xAI Grok be inclo=
mpatible with free software development, in addition to ethical concerns ar=
ound it. Other AI services (as far as I know) either do not have such condi=
tions in their TOS or have ways to opt-out from this.=C2=A0</div></div><br>=
<span class=3D"gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=
=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr">Best regards,<br>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Aigars=
 Mahinovs</div></div></div>

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