alt Hacker NewsThis does nothing to shield Linux from responsibility for infringing code.
This is essentially like a retail store saying the supplier is responsible for eliminating all traces of THC from their hemp when they know that isn’t a reasonable request to make.
It’s a foreseeable consequence. You don’t get to grant yourself immunity from liability like this.
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An open-source project receiving open-source contributions from (often anonymous) volunteers is not even close to analogous to a storefront selling products with a consumer guarantee they are backing on the basis of their supply chain.
Quite a lot of companies use and release AI written code, are they all liable?
> This does nothing to shield Linux from responsibility for infringing code.
It’s no worse than non-AI assisted code.
I could easily copy-paste proprietary code, sign my name that it’s not and that it complies with the GPL and submit it.
At the end of the day, it just comes down to a lying human.
Shield from what exactly? The Linux kernel is not a legal entity. It's a collection of contributions from various contributors. There is the Linux Foundation but they do not own Linux.
If Linux were to contain 3rd party copyrighted code the legal entity at risk of being sued would be... Linux users, which given how widely deployed Linux is is basically everyone on Earth, and all large companies.
Linux development is funded by large companies with big legal departments. It's safe to say that nobody is going to be picking this legal fight any time soon.