Hi, On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 17:16 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 01:56:17PM -0400, M. Zhou wrote: > > We acknowledge that releasing useful AI models under permissive licenses > > like > > MIT/Expat and Apache-2.0 is a generous act from the original authors due to > > huge costs, and it is a great contribution to the software ecosystem and the > > society. We sincerely respect the respective authors' work. > > i'm not sure i can subscribe to this. after all, most if not all "AI" models > exist because of stealing other peoples work...
So just like Linux only exists by stealing other people's operating system design? :-) But the practical effects of passing the GR is probably (among other things): a) Removal of OCR software (like tesseract[1]) b) Removal of image recognition software (like opencv[2]) c) Possibly removal of text-to-speech software (like festival[3] or flite[4]) I'm not sure what it means for other software with weights or similar data of uncertain origin (say S-boxes in cryptographic algorithms, possibly pre-set tuning parameters in drivers, who knows) or what happens if someone manages to use the DFSG document as weights for an AI model: it would certainly miss training data ;-) Ansgar [1]: https://sources.debian.org/src/tesseract-lang/1%3A4.1.0-2/ [2]: https://sources.debian.org/src/opencv/4.10.0%2Bdfsg-5/data/haarcascades/haarcascade_fullbody.xml/ [3]: https://sources.debian.org/src/festival-hi/0.1-11/hindi_NSK_diphone/festvox/hindi_NSK_ene.scm/#L3 [4]: https://sources.debian.org/src/flite/2.2-7/lang/cmu_us_kal/
