Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same

Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by dragonwriter on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:44AM (#31944620)

> Simply moving away from Github is not enough to protect your code if you see this as a problem. Moving your code away from Github to some open alternative doesn't stop Github consuming it to use in Copilot unless you specifically forbid that in your license.

I mean it does in the short term, because Microsoft trains it on public GitHub code.

Beyond that, as long as Microsoft is operating under their “fair use” theory, licensing is irrelevant: if they decide to expand their funnel to public code from outside of GitHub, yours will get sucked in if it is public, regardless of license, since their entire theory is they don't need a license.

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Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by tyingq on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:24AM (#31944868)

>Microsoft trains it on public GitHub code

They seem to say that's not the only source.

"What data has GitHub Copilot been trained on?

GitHub Copilot is powered by Codex, a generative pretrained AI model created by OpenAI. It has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub"

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Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by alpaca128 on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:05AM (#31944736)

Would this still apply if the license explicitly forbids use for AI training?

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Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by dragonwriter on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:03AM (#31945222)

Yes, if it is a use that doesn't require permission from the copyright owner, the license is irrelevant (unless you can demonstrate that the person doing the license-prohibited use agreed to the license anyway, in some context that makes it legally binding such as a contract.)

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