Re: Next Steps For the Software Heritage Problem

[MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:21:33 -0400
Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:37 AM MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>
> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Add a clear disclaimer/requirment that any new package that is
> > added in Guix, the person has to give consent or get consent from
> > the person that the package is written in. This needs to be added
> > in the docs and in the email procedures.  
> 
> You will be happy to know that Guix has always had this requirement
> [1] by only packaging software licensed with the four essential
> freedoms [2]. It's the first item on the Guix homepage.
> 
> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Software-Freedom.html
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Ah it seems I wasn't clear enough.
I meant write something like:

By packaging a software project for Guix you are exposing said software
to a code harvesting project (also known as LLMs or "AI") run by
Software Heritage and/or their partners. Make sure you have gotten
fully informed consent and that the author of this package fully
understands what the implications are.

Something like that. To make it clear that the package that is about to
be added to Guix is going to be harvested for the LLM models Software
Heritage decided to share the code with.

Hope this is more clear.

MSavoritias