Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Gerardo Ballabio <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 10:59:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <CA+f80t6CMeuFXmE-CMDREevE3ozc=mR9kaRa2q+i5P5tRfYTYg@mail.gmail.com>
Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> Lawyers that I have spoken with are of the opinion that AI providers (either model weight providers or service providers) can not *really* legally claim any kind of copyright on the outputs of the AI models, so they are very explicitly NOT doing that.

As I understand it, the problem with copyright isn't that AI providers
might claim copyright. It's that *someone else* might claim copyright
because the AI scraped and regurgitated their code. That's still an
open legal question AFAIK.

Gerardo