> I have reached out (as I said I would) to the HF Great stuff, very helpful. Thank you!
> our catalogue of questions Maybe we could start building such a catalogue of questions. > any competent lawyer specialised on IP rights should be able to either answer > our questions Be very wary about this. In my experience it's easy for lawyers who appear competent - and even *are* competent - to absolutely bungle jobs. I think the main reason is people aren't good at estimating how competent a lawyer will be *in that particular situation*. > or be able to refer to one that can. Watch out for references too. Lawyers usually don't keep in touch with other lawyers at a professional level other than in adversarial situations. Any references are usually going to be based on friendship. The only time lawyers associate with other lawyers based on specialization and quality of work is when they become partners (or otherwise work in the same law company). In my experience lawyer references from other lawyers have a high chance of failure. > risk assessment agreed. So now the question would be: Why risk anything at all? Why risk decades of research and work by thousands of people? What are we winning that otherwise cannot be obtained at all? I think this needs assessment of its own, and I think it's super important. One common defense I've seen is "but then people will lie about their use of LLMs" - ok, and? If I'm a store clerk, and I'm given money, I'm not liable for where it came from, unless someone specifically tells me it came from a robbery. If people tell us they created things themselves, and they lied, then perhaps any copyright based quarrel would be possible to direct to that person (they lied and misled the project to accepting their derived, GPL-infected, stolen-IP code*) and deflect it off of GHC. * I'm not saying all LLM code is like that, those are just some possible arguments. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
