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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by klabb3 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:46PM (#33459012)
> Authors who publish their code on Github grant Github a licence under the Github Terms: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

This sounds unenforceable in the general case. How could github know whether someone pushes their own code or not? Is it a license violation to push someone's FOSS code to github because the author didn't sign up with GH?

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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by deanjones on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:02PM (#33459177)
> Is it a license violation to push someone's FOSS code to github because the author didn't sign up with GH?

It depends on the licence.

It's very much enforceable that companies who provide content publishing platforms will indemnify themselves against people publishing content to which they do not have an appropriate licence.

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