How to check copyright?

Posted Oct 6, 2025 14:24 UTC (Mon) by stefanha (subscriber, #55072)
In reply to: How to check copyright? by Wol
Parent article: Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy

> If I had an LLM and found myself sued like that, I'd certainly want to drag the querier into it ...

Hence why contributors need a way to check copyright compliance.

How to check copyright?

Posted Oct 6, 2025 14:29 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

TBF, you also need such a mechanism to check copyright compliance of any code you've written yourself - you are also quite capable of accidental infringement (where having seen a particular way to write code before, you copy it unintentionally), and to defend yourself or the project you contribute to, you have to prove either that you never saw the original code that you're alleged to have copied (the clean room route) or that this code is on the "idea" side of the idea-expression distinction (however that's expressed in local law).

How to check copyright?

Posted Oct 6, 2025 14:36 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Hence why contributors need a way to check copyright compliance.

This is a legal problem, and cannot be solved via (purely, or even mostly) technical means.