Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri...
by dragonwriter on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:17AM
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> The writing is on the wall. You MUST host your own code on a stand-alone website.
Even if Microsoft currently only uses GitHub-hosted code as an input to Copilot, their theory of the legality does not depend on code being hosted there and applies to any code they can get their hands on. The idea that hosting code publicly at some non-GitHub location is going to keep it out of Copilot is not well justified.
Even if Microsoft currently only uses GitHub-hosted code as an input to Copilot, their theory of the legality does not depend on code being hosted there and applies to any code they can get their hands on. The idea that hosting code publicly at some non-GitHub location is going to keep it out of Copilot is not well justified.