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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by gaigalas on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:21AM (#46300725)
> I think that the de facto situation is that AI does not have to know about licences or copyright at all.

That is simply not true.

Companies can get into legal trouble if they don't.

Copilot does that bookeeping:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/get-code-suggesti...

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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by palata on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @08:03AM (#46301504)
> Companies can get into legal trouble if they don't.

Heard of Meta torrenting copyrighted material? What kind of trouble did they get into?

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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by gaigalas on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:59AM (#46302102)
What if they lost?

Open source license litigation is a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation

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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by palata on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @05:15PM (#46306309)
Not sure what you are trying to say. What I see is that in practice, TooBigTech can do their training with everything they want without any meaningful consequence.
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