On Monday 24 November 2025 11:09:19 Eastern European Standard Time Vlad Zahorodnii wrote: > On 11/24/25 2:16 AM, Akseli Lahtinen wrote: > > Contributor is always responsible for the code changes and creation, > > regardless where the code came from, such as: > > - Code was written completely by the contributor. > > - Code was generated by an LLM/"AI" or any other tool. > > - Code was given to contributor by someone else. > > It needs to be supplemented with a license. > > > - Code was copy-pasted from the internet. > > If the code has a license attached to it, sure. Otherwise, it seems like > a no-no thing. That being said, you can't also verify that that code > hasn't been copied from elsewhere, but I don't think that we should say > it's okay to do it. You can have a look at code and have your own take > on it. > > > Contributor must try their best to understand what their contribution > > is changing and they must be able to justify the changes. > > > > Using any tools to help understand and justify those changes does not > > change or reduce the expectations. > > > > The changes are attributed to the contributor, no matter whatever tools > > they have used. > I am not a lawyer and I don't follow the legal stuff closely, but last > time I heard about the ownership attribution cases, it had still been a > muddy water thing. There are several schools of thought, each of which > has a leg to stand on: "it's a clever autocomplete machine, so you can't > claim ownership of a work, which is owned by somebody else" or "you > can't claim copyright just because you typed a query, you didn't put in > enough of creative effort to claim the ownership," or "the generated is > not strictly the same as the source data so it has been transformed," etc. > > To be frank, I think the best course of action is to sit it out and see > where laws end up being.
I am definitely fine with this too. My main concern is, what do we say to people asking about this? > > Cheers, > Vlad Br, - Akseli
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