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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by nickjj on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:17PM (#31852228)
> If your code is using a license that allows it, how could you possibly opt-out aside from using a different license?

A repo setting that instructs Github not to use your code for Copilot, it could be a similar option as turning Discussions on / off.

If they really want to win developers over they would even have Copilot scanning disabled by default but that'll never happen.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by quietbritishjim on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:30PM (#31852436)
Even if Github did provide that setting, as a courtesy, someone could clone / fork the code to another repo (if you use any licence that allows it) and not enable that setting.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by Inityx on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:05PM (#31852933)
Sure that's possible, but there's a huuuge difference between Possible and Default Behavior.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by TAForObvReasons on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:58PM (#31853655)
In a case like this, GitHub itself could set up a bot account that forks all projects as soon as you make the switch. The company in fact would be incentivized to do so.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by jonny_eh on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:22PM (#31852316)
Sounds like you want a new license that just prohibits use by one company for one purpose.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by thamer on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:47PM (#31852682)
There are other AI-based code completion systems than Copilot, at least Tabnine[1] and Kite[2] come to mind, I'm sure there are more.

[1] https://www.tabnine.com/

[2] https://www.kite.com/

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by belter on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:08PM (#31853803)
As of today there is a new one...

"Now in Preview – Amazon CodeWhisperer"

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-in-preview-amazon-codew...

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by widjit on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:54PM (#31854368)
is there something wrong with that?
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by jonny_eh on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:12PM (#31854561)
Not at all, you can put any license on your code that you want.
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