Re:Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Co...
by sreevisakh on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:49AM
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Specifically, section D.4 [1] of Github's terms of service. That agreement gives them the right to parse or analyze source code. Sounds very much like it justifies training copilot.
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
Normally when you sign up to you a service you are also giving that service provider access to your work. If that is the case here this access would exist outside of the license listed on any given GitHub repo as a separate agreement from the general public.