Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?

Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by mjg59 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:26AM (#27818392)

The majority of public repositories on Github aren't "open source" - there's no associated license that grants you any right to use or modify the code. Copilot is trained on them regardless.

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by NmAmDa on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:56AM (#27818842)

They rely on the fact that you granted them this right by agreeing to their ToS which allows that use. I doubt any court would consider this illegal.

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by b3morales on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:46PM (#27823862)

This is quite an ambitious claim. Certainly the GitHub TOS grants them some common-sense ability to copy the code you upload so that they can usefully host it. Can you point to the portion that allows them to use it for Copilot?

Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Section D4:

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service...

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by mjg59 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:28AM (#27819003)

I didn't say otherwise? The comment I replied to said:

> there will not be derivative works of closed source at least from a copilot use case point of view.

which is inaccurate, since many public repositories on Github aren't open source and ended up in Copilot's training corpus anyway.

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