There are a few ideas of how trouble could arise off the top of my head. None of this is going to be nearly as exhaustive as an expert legal opinion could be.
You only need to look at the YouTube musician debacle for an example. Musicians on YouTube are completely unprotected and so people upload their music, then someone else copyrights it, and then claims the copyright. Shaky ownership of copyright of included code could easily result in a weak position when such challenges arise for GHC in the future. The tech industry has a history of companies making their whole existence out of suing thousands, hundreds of thousands of companies and people. "Piracy lawsuit" companies. Patent trolls. DMCA trolls. Etc. It is easy to imagine that in the future, a company could arise that: 1. Has identified that (some/every) AI training corpus included their copyrighted work 2. Deems any work generated by that AI to be derivative of their copyright 3. Harvests git repositories for people's emails from commits authored by John Doe "and claude" 4. Sends out one million fine / settlement demands Let's say they estimate the Haskell industry, which includes banks, high frequency traders, insurers, crypto, and other juicy steaks, to be worth $100M to them and that's their demand. What do we do then? Nothing, we're just in a deep hole, because Laurent de Cotret decided "this isn't Haskell-specific". You asked for an example. Here is one. I want to specifically preclude a conversation resulting from this that goes like: 1. "OK, I see your problem" 2. "But, aha! <some objection>" 3. "Therefore, there is no problem" 4. "So, we don't need experts looking into this." I will not be going down this road. Even if my simple example above which I came up with in 15 seconds of thinking is provably never going to happen, there can be other scenarios. This is just one thing to illustrate how things could go, but again, it's up to the experts to tell us what problems could *actually* arise. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
