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Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive


From: Ian Eure
Subject: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:52:53 -0700
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Hi Guixy people,

I’d never heard of SWH before I started hacking on Guix last fall, and it struck me as rather a good idea. However, I’ve seen some things lately which have soured me on them.

They appear to be using the archive to build LLMs: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/

I was also distressed to see how poorly they treated a developer who wished to update their name: https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5052044-the-software-heritag

GPL’d software I’ve created has been packaged for Guix, which I assume means it’s been included in SWH. While I’m dealing with their (IMO: unethical) opt-out process, I likely also need to stop new copies from being uploaded again in the future.

Is there a way to indicate, in a Guix package, that it should *never* be included in SWH?

Is there a way to tell Guix to never download source from SWH?

I want absolutely nothing to do with them.

Thanks,

 — Ian



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