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Really getting tired of the “but they trained it on our code” chat. GitHub has hosted your code for free, forever. Enjoying GitHub Actions? How about GHCR? When your license your code as MIT, and other permissive licenses, you free it up for anybody to make money from it.

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MIT still requires attribution: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

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Direct copying is not required for it to be copyright infringement. GitHub knows they aren't respecting the licenses and are counting on courts deciding that it's fair use to train their machine learning models based on the code. It's also really their users infringing, not them.

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Open source licenses permit doing this but the code produced by the tools needs to respect the licenses which means the tool needs to be able to generate attribution information based on everything that it was derived from and copyleft licenses will constrain the licensing used.

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