Post #2614209

2026-02-27 01:12 UTC

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social according to my understanding of current copyright guidance in the United States, doing this means they forfeit their copyright to the entire Firefox codebase.

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@linear@nya.social 2026-02-27 01:19

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social attached excerpts are why i believe this. these come from this document, the Congressional Research Service's report on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law. https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-02-27 01:39

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social @linear@nya.social no, it just means that the slop output is not copyrightable as a work in itself (it’s still encumbered by the licences (or lack thereof) of all the stolen works they fed it with)

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@basxto@chaos.social 2026-02-27 04:03

@linear@nya.social @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social No, the issue sound like an agent writes the commit message and commits it. Not about it writing it the actual code. That shouldn’t have any impact on the actual code base.

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