Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

[Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On lun., 18 mars 2024 at 12:38, Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> wrote:

> They appear to be violating free software licenses on large scale. 
> They are in violation of SWH’s own positions.

[...]

> [1]: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.19173v1
> [2]: 
> https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/starchat2-playground
> [3]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2
> [4]: https://github.com/bigcode-project/opt-out-v2/issues

Please note that Software Heritage folks are not co-author of all that;
or I misread.  Do not take me wrong, this is not an attempt to escape
but a query for waiting the feedback of SWH.

As Ludo said, SWH folks are, by the way, also long time Free Software
activists.  For the record, the quality of 10 Years of Guix [1] videos
is the result of tireless work (for free!) by a Debian video team member
(also working for SWH) and one of SWH co-founder had been Debian project
leader.  Let the benefit of the doubt while waiting.

1: https://10years.guix.gnu.org

Cheers,
simon

PS: Thanks for the detailed explanations.  I will provide my reading
later, after some concerns will be separated, eventually.