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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by welshwelsh on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:17PM (#35427637)
What would be the point of that?

If we were somehow able to prevent AI models from ingesting a codebase, that would mean everyone else who wants to produce similar code would have to re-invent the wheel, wasting their time repeating work that has already been done.

All because... the person who did it first wants attribution? They want their name to be included in some credits.txt file that nobody will ever read? That's ridiculous.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by mftrhu on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:31PM (#35429020)
> All because... the person who did it first wants attribution? They want their name to be included in some credits.txt file that nobody will ever read?

Yes, and yes. Those would be the terms that person publishes their code under. If you can't agree to those terms - maybe because including a single name in a credits.txt file that no-one reads is somehow too onerous for your process - then you are always free to re-implement that code on your own.

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