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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/netbsd/statuses/112464614875815038">NetBSD Foundation ? (netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 08:20:14 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd" title="netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/4773-48-20220812151638.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="NetBSD Foundation ?" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">NetBSD Foundation ?</a><div><a href="https://chaos.social/@onepict/112463019744278599" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://chaos.social/@onepict">@onepict</a> i've probably said this 100+ times now - this policy is for committers (foundation members) only, who've all _already_ signed contracts with a clause about tainted code.</p><p>the policy is for base only, which has strict rules about copyright for Reasons™[0]. We are not opting out of running any third-party code that might have used an auto-completion tool. Since the BSD license requires strict attribution, our code in base can't be used to train LLMs either.</p><p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc</a>.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3110152#notice-6161892">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-05-19T08:20:14+09:00" title="Sunday, 19-May-2024 08:20:14 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/6161892" rel="external" title="Sent from gnusocial.jp via ActivityPub">gnusocial.jp</a></span></span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/6161892">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc">UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc.</a></h5><div></div></header><div>USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual property related to the Unix operating system; a culmination of the Unix wars. The case was settled out of court in 1994 after the judge expressed doubt in the validity of USL's intellectual property, with Novell (who by that time had bought USL) and the University agreeing not to litigate further over the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).Background
The suit has its roots at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, which had a license for the source code of UNIX from AT&amp;T's Bell Labs. Students doing operating systems research at the CSRG modified and extended UNIX, and the CSRG made several releases of the modified operating system beginning in 1978, with AT&amp;T's blessing. Because this Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contained copyrighted AT&amp;T Unix source code, it was only available to organizations with a source code license for Unix from AT&amp;T.
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NetBSD Foundation ? (netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 08:20:14 JSTNetBSD Foundation ?
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@onepict i've probably said this 100+ times now - this policy is for committers (foundation members) only, who've all _already_ signed contracts with a clause about tainted code.
the policy is for base only, which has strict rules about copyright for Reasons™[0]. We are not opting out of running any third-party code that might have used an auto-completion tool. Since the BSD license requires strict attribution, our code in base can't be used to train LLMs either.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc.
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  UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
  USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual property related to the Unix operating system; a culmination of the Unix wars. The case was settled out of court in 1994 after the judge expressed doubt in the validity of USL's intellectual property, with Novell (who by that time had bought USL) and the University agreeing not to litigate further over the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Background The suit has its roots at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, which had a license for the source code of UNIX from AT&T's Bell Labs. Students doing operating systems research at the CSRG modified and extended UNIX, and the CSRG made several releases of the modified operating system beginning in 1978, with AT&T's blessing. Because this Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contained copyrighted AT&T Unix source code, it was only available to organizations with a source code license for Unix from AT&T. ...

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