Hi, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Justification: code and/or documentation probably non-free > > Our friends from Gentoo have uncovered this: > > https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/114835815375250264 > > In the linked-to article, the rsyslog author admits to having > used so-called βAIβ over the past 24 (!) months. This means that > the code and/or documentation in recent releases is very likely > non-free, as itβs created by mechanically transforming existing > works without honouring their licences, and without even the > possibility of auditing. > > This makes recent releases of rsyslog not suitable for main, > especially not as default syslogd implementation.
I don't agree with the claim, but note that seems to be controversial. However this affects various other code bases as well, for example src:linux[1]: | As an example, he pointed to a patch credited to him that was merged | for the 6.15 release. That patch was entirely written by an LLM, | changelog included. and | Another example is the git-resolve script that was merged for 6.16. | This script, which came out of a late 2024 discussion on ambiguous | commit IDs, will resolve an ambiguous (or even incorrect) ID into a | full commit. It, too, was generated with an LLM. Not only does it | work, but it includes a full set of self tests, something he noted | (with understatement) is unusual for code found in the kernel's | scripts directory. LLMs, he said, ""won't give you a frowny face"" | when asked to generate tests. The script includes documentation | (also unusual for that directory), and is being used on a daily | basis in the kernel community. which suggests that code with test coverage and/or documentation is especially suspect ;-) I would expect compilers, larger libraries, GUI stuff to include code and/or documentation generated by LLMs as well by now. And this will likely only increase. So even replacing src:linux with kFreeBSD is not a working exit strategy if LLM generated code was a copyright violation. (And presumably FreeBSD will have the same going on anyway.) Ansgar [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/1026558/
