Re:Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?
by culi on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:05PM
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I assume GitHub could force you to allow Copilot to use your code for training with their terms and conditions? Whereas if it's from another source the licensing of the code has to specifically allow for commercial products
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Re:Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?
by teddyh on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:38AM
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> I assume GitHub could force you to allow Copilot to use your code for training with their terms and conditions?
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? You’d think that at least Microsoft had some legal veneer to cover what they are doing. But no. They simply took “source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub”¹ and used it.
1. https://github.com/features/copilot/#what-data-has-github-co...