[License-review] Adapting the license-review process to AI

[Pamela Chestek]

On 9/9/2024 11:59 PM, Roland Turner via License-review wrote:
> On 10/9/24 11:49, Pamela Chestek wrote:
>
>> On 9/9/2024 7:31 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> > 2. We will also need to evaluate whether certain types of content 
>> > (model weights, training process docs, etc.) require any clarification 
>> > of the OSD for compliance.
>> I'm not following - the measure will be against the OSAID, not the OSD.
>
> There may be a disconnect here. The checklist accompanying the OSAID 
> specifically refers to *components* being under OSD -approved or 
> -compliant licenses, or -conformant terms. The process is not spelled 
> out, but the implication appears to be that a large part of 
> determining a complete set of terms' compliance with OSAID will in 
> fact be determining OSD -compliance or -conformance for individual 
> components.
>
The concept (as I see it, and I may be completely wrong) is that the 
documents submitted might be for entire systems or they might be for 
just a single component, say, models. The review will be to make sure 
that the user will have all the rights guaranteed by the OSAID for 
whatever components, or systems, the legal terms might be applied to.

We understand that there might be discrete and separate terms for the 
various components in a system. The OSI will not be evaluating systems 
as a whole to make sure that every component has approved terms - that's 
what a compliance program would do, which we are not doing. As with open 
source software, it will be up to the community, with support from OSI, 
to identify false claims that an AI system is open source when it is 
not, whether it's because some component is missing a necessary grant of 
rights or because the grant does not assure all the freedoms required.

Pam


Pamela S. Chestek
Chair, License Committee
Open Source Initiative
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