✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

“I’m leaving GitHub because copilot uses my OpenSource code for training” is such an odd move. Anyone can fork it to there and GitHub can feed OpenSource code from anywhere to it and US copyright law permits this. I’m also pretty certain we should not strengthen copyright laws …

Anybody who thinks that copyright law allows them to train with GPL data and not be generating GPL code is wrong.

Unfortunately we don't know that yet. It's certainly not what I intended, or what most devs do when they license GPL, but a court needs to make that decision.

Honest question: what do you expect when using GPL in your code? I personally use MIT.

When someone uses my code in another software project that they then distribute, the code for that project is also available. MIT does not require this, so I don't usually use it.

The problem of GPL is that it also requires derivative work to be under GPL as far as I know, that's why I don't use it and use MIT instead, because GPL basically makes commercial usage impossible.