On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 6:17 PM Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
> I have looked at the diffs.
>
> There is a claim that University of California holds copyright over large
> chunks of code which are new.  These are perhaps mostly copied, but have
> been changed in novel ways.  I didn't dig deep enough to decide if the
> changes are trivial or complicated, I just looked at the volume.

Well most code was taken from ext2fs

> There is a different claim that you hold copyright over large chunks of
> new code.

I did write it and read it with some tooling of my choice.

> Amongst that, there are pieces containing structures, and CRC, which you
> claim you actually wrote.  You may have used AI tooling to do that.

That's true.

> But that leaves the situation that large chunks of new code do not have
> provenance under Copyright law.  You did not write them, you said an AI did.
> Then you, or the AI, put a Copyright notice at the top of those files.

That's true for crc32c which is ChatGPT code and debug and most short
functions except VOP_*

> That is a legal statement that this is a new work by a human creator.
> But a human creator didn't do this.

Well I take upon myself that this code will be well copied if you put
my name on it. Isn't that the goal of the copy right ?

> Since every file in OpenBSD has been continually verified to ensure
> correct Copyright, and we've even deleted code which has incorrect
> Copyright, the chances of us accepting such new code with such a suspicious
> Copyright situation is zero.

Well in the past copyright situations have been resolved and if
someone wants to step up and change these copyright troubles I would
be delighted.