GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you

Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by krapp on Saturday July 03, 2021 @07:19PM (#27725822)

How would the GPL have prevented this, exactly?

More explicitly, how would a license that gives everyone the right to copy, modify and redistribute source code for any purpose without compensation or attribution have prevented Github from building a tool that copies, modifies and redistributes source code without compensation or attribution?

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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by IAmLiterallyAB on Saturday July 03, 2021 @08:06PM (#27726087)

Because if you use GPL code, you must release your use/changes under the GPL. That's why the GPL is often called infectious. If copilot spits out GPL code verbatim, the user of the code must respect the license.

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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by lal on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:01PM (#27733307)

You don't know how the GPL works. The GPL explicitly requires attribution. I don't understand what you thought you were saying. The GPL places strict requirements on the licensing of derivative works. You don't know how the GPL works.

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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by greyhair on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:11PM (#27765772)

And if they provide attribution?

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