Hi Guixy people,
I’d never heard of SWH before I started hacking on Guix last fall,
and it struck me as rather a good idea. However, I’ve seen some
things lately which have soured me on them.
They appear to be using the archive to build LLMs:
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/
I was also distressed to see how poorly they treated a developer
who wished to update their name:
https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag
https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5052044-the-software-heritag
GPL’d software I’ve created has been packaged for Guix, which I
assume means it’s been included in SWH. While I’m dealing with
their (IMO: unethical) opt-out process, I likely also need to stop
new copies from being uploaded again in the future.
Is there a way to indicate, in a Guix package, that it should
*never* be included in SWH?
Is there a way to tell Guix to never download source from SWH?
I want absolutely nothing to do with them.
Thanks,
— Ian
