It didn't. If you had a complimentary Copilot Pro plan, you'll continue to have it so you're good!

The FAQ entry about the free tier for open source maintainers is still live here: https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...

You can confirm at https://github.com/settings/copilot that you're still on the Pro plan.

We still get the pro plan, which saves $10/month. But that's not good enough. Popular open source maintainers deserve their most expensive enterprise plan. Microsoft indemnifies enterprises from me, but they won't indemnify me from enterprises. How is that fair? Is this how they treat the people who make their platform great? Rolling out the red carpet and granting open source developers enterprise privileges is the only way for Microsoft to prove that it's serious.

That only lasts a year I think? Mine was cut after a while. Although I had stopped using it before that point.

It's renewable.

> Once awarded, if you are still a maintainer of a popular open source project when your initial 12 months subscription expires then you will be able to renew your subscription for free.

source: https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...