On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:51:27PM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > It is absolutely critical to a very specific DFSG question on what is > the "prefered form of modification". This is maybe a side terminological note, but note that the DFSG talks about "source code", not "preferred form of modification". The latter expression comes historically from the GPL, rather than DFSG (or OSD). I'm personally attached to the notion of "preferred form". I also believe Debian is currently interpreting "source code" as equating the stronger notion of "preferred form"; e.g., we require to have the non-minified versions of JavaScript bundle in main. But ML models might be the first case in which there can conceivably be multiple "source codes" for the same artifact (ML weights), modifiable in different ways (e.g., fine-tuning vs re-training), which are "preferred" by different users for different use cases. I don't know if this justify reconsidering our stance on what "source code" means, or our stance on the fact that we consider all types of artifacts (source code, images, data, etc.) as being equal. I just wanted us to keep in mind that "source code" and "preferred form of modification" are not *necessarily* the same thing. Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack@upsilon.cc . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> Co-founder & CSO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ Mastodon: https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "'
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