Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot
by AdamJacobMuller on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:54PM
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> is not themselves a user of Github
Is it that widely scoped? Can't we narrow it to "A third party who finds their GPL code on Github but has not uploaded that specific code to Github themselves has a right of action limited to that specific code."
Just because I created a github account once and agreed to the TOS doesn't mean that I agree to let others upload my code to github, where would that scope end. Could someone steal code off my computer which i've never published and put it on Github and that was OK because I once signed up for a github account, clearly a contrived example but.
Is it that widely scoped? Can't we narrow it to "A third party who finds their GPL code on Github but has not uploaded that specific code to Github themselves has a right of action limited to that specific code."
Just because I created a github account once and agreed to the TOS doesn't mean that I agree to let others upload my code to github, where would that scope end. Could someone steal code off my computer which i've never published and put it on Github and that was OK because I once signed up for a github account, clearly a contrived example but.