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

[Stefano Maffulli]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 11:47 AM Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org>
wrote:

> That is also my understanding, but I'd like to have some official
> confirmation about this from OSI, as it will impact this discussion and
> more generally the work of all the volunteers participating on this
> list.
>

Confirmed: At the moment and for the foreseeable future, the OSI has no
intention to engage officially in an effort to review AI systems (as
defined by the OECD) for conformance to the Open Source AI Definition[1].
Some ideas of why, read the forum post
https://discuss.opensource.org/t/initial-report-on-definition-validation/368

[^1]: (that is the official spelling, the acronym is not official)

There's another related practical question: what would be the published
> *output* of OSAID-related reviews?
>

The whole field is so new that probably we'll have to start, limp along,
mess up and be ready to iterate quickly.

One way to get started is to grab 4-5 of these new legal documents (say...
terms from RAIL, Llama, Gemma --the first that come to mind specifically
written for AI artifacts), get a few volunteers to check those out and see
what questions they raise. Versioning may be one issue, but I'm sure we'll
find more.

A project for the northern hemisphere winter months? :)
/stef
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