I have reached out (as I said I would) to the HF asking if they can
provide information from a qualified expert
when it comes to the facts of the law.
I've also opened a discourse thread to gather legal question around this
topic for this purpose:
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/common-legal-questions-around-llms/14489
If people have concrete questions I would welcome them there.
The HF has acknowledging that they received my message but hasn't said
anything on the topic beyond that received my message (yet).
But I'm pretty optimistic that we can make something happen there.
It's plausible that matching our catalogue of questions to those asked
and already answered by other projects
will be good enough. If we think it's not good enough then my instinct
is that any competent lawyer specialised on IP rights should be able to
either
answer our questions or be able to refer to one that can.
Last but not least I think given the state of the law in regards to LLMs
and IP rights I think it's best to think of this as a *risk assessment*.
In practice many of those questions around LLMs are not quite yet
settled law, and won't be for years to come.
Andreas
On 03/08/2026 14:37, damiancoding--- via ghc-devs wrote:
Repeating this in a top post, for visibility.
I think the most productive work we can do is answering the following
organizational questions:
1. How do we locate the right lawyers?
2. Can the Haskell Foundation even fund them?
3. Does this require a fundraiser of some sort?
4. Could the budgeting and/or fundraiser be joined by other communities and
projects with the same issue? LLMs vs copyright is not a uniquely GHC thing.
Maybe it's time to reach out to other projects under similar licenses? Other
programming languages? Python, Rust, Postgres, PHP, Ruby, etc? Apache
foundation? Most of the other large programming communities are
corporate-owned, so this is our initial list of options.
5. At least some other projects have lawyers on staff, so maybe they are
available to provide guidance to the larger community, if copyright is their
area of specialization?
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