On 17 Feb 2026 18:49, Matt Borland via Boost wrote:
Will the questions on licensing be resolved before the review, before inclusion (if accepted)?
It is my understanding that Vinnie has contacted a lawyer with this question. More to follow on timelines. FWIW, the U.S. Copyright Office last month put out a report: "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability"[1]. Their conclusion section (section V) is short and seems to answer the questions posed in this thread.
Matt
[1] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Co...
The report conclusion says that the AI-generated output is copyrightable, provided that it contains sufficient human contribution, but it doesn't discuss the possibility of encumberment of this output due to the fact that the AI model was trained on a potentially copyrighted material. Perhaps, the answer to this is known implicitly or I'm missing it somewhere in the document, but I would like this point to be addressed by the lawyer as well. Specifically, would Boost and the library authors be legally protected if the AI model(s) used by the library maintainers were trained on a copyrighted material.