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

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Thu Sep 12 00:11:13 UTC 2024


On 9/9/24 20:59, Roland Turner via License-review 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.
> 

Yes, that's exactly what I'm taking about.  Never having tried to verify 
if the terms for model weights are "OSD-compatible" I don't know yet 
whether or not we'll need to argue out OSD interpretation in a new 
context.  We usually do.


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Josh Berkus



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