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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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