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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by jen20 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:20AM (#29683959)
Because it isn’t in compliance with the terms of many popular licenses to create derivative works without attribution. Therefore the only possible claim Microsoft have to do so is via terms and conditions, which would not apply to code hosted on a stand-alone website.

It might be time for popular licenses to update themselves for this new-found threat.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by dragonwriter on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:24AM (#29684477)
> Therefore the only possible claim Microsoft have to do so is via terms and conditions

No, Microsoft's claim is fair use, not GitHub terms and conditions. You don't have to speculate on what you think their possible claims are, when they've publicly stated their actual claims.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by defen on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:29AM (#29684045)
What happens when some random person uploads your code (acquired from your website) to GitHub?
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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by leephillips on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:37AM (#29684119)
It depends on how that code is licensed. Possibly the random person gets served with a summons. Possibly nothing.
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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by jen20 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:39AM (#29684129)
Well, that is what updating the license accomplishes.

I’d be interested to know if code subject to DCMA takedown would be removed from the copilot training set…

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:41AM (#29684148)
> it isn’t in compliance with the terms of many popular licenses to create derivative works without attribution

Did you click the link for this article? Did you see that MS removed the author’s name in the license header and replaced it with their own?

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by jen20 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:42AM (#29684633)
Yes?
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