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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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I'm honestly curious about the backlash. "Our code", so much FOSS, is used to make money for other people. That's why OSS is commercially viable. If this is a problem, then write a new license which prohibits commercial AI consumption of the code licensed by it and adopt it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Open source licenses almost all require attribution. In the case of copyleft licenses they require not adding additional restrictions. Commercial use is allowed, but the licenses still have to be respected. If you use CoPilot you're creating work derived from other projects.

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This is interesting, the attribution requirement must have an effective trigger. Is there a difference between human and machine self teaching from GitHub? How many similar lines of code from a studied project in original work obligates the author to the original license?

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It’s not just the training. I believe that in some cases it’s spit out code that people have recognized from their projects, verbatim.

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