tismij t1_ityq4sx wrote on October 27, 2022 at 8:12 AM

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing by dadofbimbim

Not unfounded, they use your code without asking.

Cookizza t1_ityxygs wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:04 AM

Damn, the last thing I want when I push my project to Github is someone to use it without asking. I'm out!

[deleted] t1_itz11ax wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:43 AM

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anlumo t1_itz1esu wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:47 AM

They use GPL code for Copilot, which strips the license and just leaves the code to be used for whatever you want.

theschuss t1_itz9bzr wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:11 PM

Small snippets, and I believe they're in the process of cleaning up it's acquisition rules for training. There's a ton of legal precedent around small snippets of "obvious" code being unpatentable (think for loops or iterators)

anlumo t1_itz9xy7 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:16 PM

That's not obvious code: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581402212319666176

HanzJWermhat t1_iu2qx8o wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:56 AM

Not true. Code is protected under IP copywriter law it’s basically treated like a book or piece of music. You have a responsibility to declare its license rights. By default I think it’s no rights even if the code is public. MS or anyone dumb enough to not check for open source licensing before using the code would open themselves up to absurd litigation l.