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Whether it is legally wrong or not to scan OSS code (I think it is wrong), there has been a time-honored precedent for disallowing automated scanning:

  robots.txt 
This is exactly what is needed for source code, and the default (no robots.txt) should be "disallow".

The fact that the Web has considered this moral issue should be a strong hint for the AI people not to take a purely legal stance but consider the OSS community that they are so heavily using.




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